Abstract— Atthe start of any application the authentication process is run before thepermission checks occurs and before any code is allowed to proceed. Differentsystem may require different types of credentials to ascertain a user’sidentity. The credential is in the form of password which is secret and knownonly to the user and the system. Textual password are the most common methodused for authentication .But hacker are trying to know the password throughdifferent techniques for access the information .the password may stole throughshoulder surfing, Eves dropping, dictionary attacks, social engineering . Andother alternative technique of textual password is graphical password but ithas its own disadvantages. In this paper, To overcome these problem we areintroducing a new authentication technique for creating a session password fora particular session using pair based algorithm. we are implementing pair basedalgorithm in android developing the android application for generating sessionpassword for particular session. Which provide high security for accessing theapplication.
Keywords: Authentication, Textual, Graphicalpassword, session password,