Keystroke Dynamics Capture Tool

A live demo can be found here.

What is keystroke dynamics?

Keystroke dynamics centers around the use of typing patterns as a biometric tool. Unlike passwords or biological biometrics, keystroke patterns cannot be emulated under duress, and thus may be a viable approach for authentication, instead of or on top of password-based authentication.

What is this website, and how can I use it?

This website is an interface for collecting keystroke patterns, design with simplicity and ease-of-use in mind. In order to use it, there are several steps that need to take place:

• Fork this repository and all of its contents
• Create an airtable account, and set up an empty table for use
• Inside main.js and typing.js, edit the airtable initialization lines

var base = new Airtable({apiKey: API_KEY}).base('TABLE_ID');

• Find the API key and base ID inside Airtable, by clicking Help > API Documentation
• In order to select a text, change the following inside typing.js:
• Choose the text inside the state, and NUM is 2 * number of chars in text

this.state = {
  text: YOUR_TEXT,
  keystroke: Array(NUM).fill(0),
}

• And also change NUM on line 34

this.setState({ keystroke: Array(NUM).fill(0) })

Customizing the aesthetics

This website was built with Tailwind CSS and React JS, so to change the UI, simply edit the class names of widgets on the page.

Credit

This code is free to use, and the copyright symbol may be removed from the landing page, but please appropriately credit the author in any academic work.

Contacting the author

Feel free to get in touch with me, by emailing me or getting in touch on discord.