Method and system for using a vibration signature as an authentication key
A method and computer program product for using a vibration signature as an authentication key to authorize access of a user computer to a network. A vibration device generates a vibration signal of the vibration signature. In one embodiment, a router detects and validates the vibration signal, and then the router starts a session of connecting the user computer to the network. In another embodiment, the user computer decodes the vibration signal of the vibration signature to a security set identifier and a security key, and then sends to a router. In response to validating the security set identifier and the security key, the router starts a session of connecting the user computer to the network.
1. A method of using a vibration signature as an authentication key to authorize access of a user computer to a network, the method implemented by at least one computer program on a router, the method comprising:
invoking the router to listen to a vibration signal of the vibration signature from a device attached on the user computer, wherein the device generates the vibration signal of the vibration signature;
receiving the vibration signal of the vibration signature from the device;
validating the vibration signature;
starting a session of connecting the user computer to the network through the router, in response to determining that the vibration signature is authorized;
determining whether the vibration signal of the vibration signature is continuously received by the router;
discontinuing the session of connecting the user computer to the network through the router, in response to determining that the vibration signal of the vibration signature is not continuously received by the router; and
continuing the session of connecting the user computer to the network through the router, in response to determining that the vibration signal of the vibration signature is continuously received by the router.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining whether the session of connecting the user computer to the network through the router is finished;
discontinuing the session of connecting the user computer to the network through the router, in response to determining that the session is finished; and
continuing the session of connecting the user computer to the network through the router, in response to determining that the session is not finished.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the router detects the vibration signal of the vibration signature by a vibration signal receiving device.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the vibration signal receiving device is a microphone or an accelerometer.
5. A computer program product for using vibration signature as an authentication key to authorize access of a user computer to a network, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable to:
invoke a router to listen to a vibration signal of the vibration signature from a device attached on the user computer, wherein the device generates the vibration signal of the vibration signature;
receive the vibration signal of the vibration signature from the device;
validate the vibration signature;
start a session of connecting the user computer to the network through the router, in response to determining that the vibration signature is authorized;
determine whether the vibration signal of the vibration signature is continuously received by the router;
discontinue the session of connecting the user computer to the network through the router, in response to determining that the vibration signal of the vibration signature is not continuously received by the router; and
continue the session of connecting the user computer to the network through the router, in response to determining that the vibration signal of the vibration signature is continuously received by the router.
6. The computer program product of claim 5 , further comprising the program code executable to:
determine whether the session of connecting the user computer to the network through the router is finished;
discontinue the session of connecting the user computer to the network through the router, in response to determining that the session is finished; and
continue the session of connecting the user computer to the network through the router, in response to determining that the session is not finished.
7. The computer program product of claim 5 , wherein the router listens to the vibration signal of the vibration signature by a vibration signal receiving device.
8. The computer program product of claim 7 , wherein the vibration signal receiving device is a microphone or an accelerometer.