In this report the area of cognitive authentication schemes is investigated with a special emphasis on user-friendliness. The reason for this emphasis is that we view the user-friendliness as an important problem to have solved. This emphasis does however not rule out a short analysis of the security of such schemes.
To investigate if cognitive authentication schemes are realistic methods to use for authentication we have researched many different existing authentication schemes and security problems. The reason for this is so that we can use those as a basis for our own prototype which is evaluated using a user survey. Using this survey we have been able to gather the users’ thoughts on our prototypes and evaluate them. The results from this survey show that people are open to using one of our prototypes. This is a very interesting result as it suggests that people would be open to switching to a different authentication scheme than the default text based one and that more research into the field is warranted.