CPU-Auth is a novel authentication method that uses unique variations in a device’s CPU, measured via the Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) governor from a browser, to create a hardware-based device fingerprint. The approach is evaluated on over 50,000 data traces using distance‑based and deep learning techniques. The study highlights how CPU-Auth could serve as a secondary authentication factor, addressing flaws in existing methods such as SMS, biometrics, and token‑based systems.
By Ryan Swift
Deep learning approaches to biometric verification are commonly trained by optimizing indirect objectives, creating a misalignment between the optimization process and the primary evaluation metric, typically the Equal Error Rate (EER). This paper introduces EERLoss: a subdifferentiable, arbitrarily accurate approximation to EER for training deep biometric models.
arXiv:2606. 24586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning approaches to biometric verification are commonly trained by optimizing indirect objectives, creating a misalignment between the optimization process and the primary evaluation metric, typically the Equal Error Rate (EER).
By Nahuel Gonzalez, Marta Robledo-Moreno, Ivan DeAndres-Tame, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Ruben Tolosana
arXiv:2606. 11505v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biometric systems are increasingly deployed in security applications; however, they remain vulnerable to spoofing attacks, in which attackers exploit counterfeit biometric data to gain unauthorized access.
By Kumar Kartikey, Nikos Komninos
The paper investigates whether passive motion traces recorded during selfie capture can serve as an auxiliary signal for detecting spoofing and verifying users in mobile remote identity verification systems. It introduces the CanSelfie dataset, comprising 375 multi‑sensor sequences from 30 participants, and evaluates seven time‑series classifiers and eight anomaly detectors across various sensor configurations. Results show that accelerometer‑only classifiers achieve very low false rejection rates, while certain models achieve low false acceptance rates and high verification accuracy, indicating that selfie‑capture motion is a promising low‑friction evidence channel.
By Erkka Rantahalvari, Olli Silv\'en, Zinelabidine Boulkenafet, Constantino \'Alvarez Casado
arXiv:2606. 21900v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continuous authentication for mobile and zero-trust systems requires nonintrusive evidence confirming the enrolled user-device context remains valid after initial login.
By Stergios Lantzos, Ilias Syrigos, Apostolos Apostolaras, Thanasis Korakis