Keystroke-based behavioral biometrics have been proven effective for continuous user authentication. Current state-of-the-art algorithms have achieved outstanding results in long text or short text collected by doing some tasks. It remains a considerable challenge to authenticate users continuously and accurately with short keystroke inputs collected in uncontrolled settings. In this work, we propose a Timely Keystroke-based method for Continuous user Authentication, named TKCA. It integrates the key name and two kinds of timing features through an embedding mechanism. And it captures the relationship between context keystrokes by the Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) network. We conduct a series of experiments to validate it on a public dataset - the Clarkson II dataset collected in a completely uncontrolled and natural setting. Experiment results show that the proposed TKCA achieves state-of-the-art performance with 8.28% of EER when using only 30 keystrokes and 2.78% of EER when using 190 keystrokes.
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