A Shoulder Surfing Resistant Graphical Authentication System TEXTUAL passwords have been the most widely used authentication method for decades. Comprised of number sand upper- and lower-case letters, textual passwords are considered strong enough to resist against brute force attacks. However, a strong textual password is hard to memorize and recollect. Therefore, users tend to choose passwords that are either short or from the dictionary, rather than random alphanumeric strings. Various graphical password authentication schemes were developed to address the problems and weaknesses associated with textual passwords. Based on some studies such as those in , humans have a better ability to memorize images with long-term memory(LTM) than verbal representations. Image-based passwords were proved to be easier to recollect in several user studies As a result, users can set up a complex authentication password and are capable of recollecting it after a long time eve
