The Impact Of Cultural Familiarity On Choosing Images For Recognition-Based Graphical Passwords

The current movement to graphical passwords for securing users’ personal information has led to the needs for more efforts to advance the security characteristics of such passwords. In this paper, we described the process for constructing graphical password based on the users’ cultural familiarity with images within the Malaysian context. A control-laboratory experiment was conducted involving 30 participants whom were requested to identify the familiarity aspect with regards to cultural-background. The obtained results showed that slightly more than half of the participants include at least one familiar images in their graphical password choices. The results could suggest that cultural background is highly considered as one of the factor that influences password choices among users.