International Journal of Engineering Research in Computer Science and Engineering (IJERCSE)

Synthima Approach to recall the Textual Passwords

Author : Noor Basha ¹ Amith AM ² Bandi Krishna Reddy ³ Charan N ⁴ Jyothi Krupa Nidhi ⁵

Date of Publication :21st June 2018

Abstract: Textual passwords are the most generally used user authentication techniques now a days. Since there is a possibility to forget a password while maintaining a numerous accounts by a single user, password hint mechanism came into existence which usually reveals most of the information about the password. This mechanism encourages the hackers to hack the account easily. In this paper we are proposing a new mechanism called as SYNTHIMA approach which uses the contact list of the user to make user to recall the textual password. The password along with salt value will be hash coded and the remainder is stored in the database hence making the hacker difficult to hack from backend

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