Dataset for The Reverse Problem of Keystroke Dynamics: Guessing Typed Text with Keystroke Timings

Dataset used in the article "The Reverse Problem of Keystroke Dynamics: Guessing Typed Text with Keystroke Timings". Source data contains CSV files with dataset results summaries, false positives lists, the evaluated sentences, and their keystroke timings. Results data contains training and evaluation ARFF files for each user and sentence with the calculated Manhattan and euclidean distance, R metric, and the directionality index for each challenge instance. The source data comes from three free text keystroke dynamics datasets used in previous studies, by the authors (LSIA) and two other unrelated groups (KM, and PROSODY, subdivided in GAY, GUN, and REVIEW). Two different languages are represented, Spanish in LSIA and English in KM and PROSODY. The original dataset KM was used to compare anomaly-detection algorithms for keystroke dynamics in the article "Comparing anomaly-detection algorithms forkeystroke dynamic" by Killourhy, K.S. and Maxion, R.A. The original dataset PROSODY was used to find cues of deceptive intent by analyzing variations in typing patterns in the article "Keystroke patterns as prosody in digital writings: A case study with deceptive reviews and essay" by Banerjee, R., Feng, S., Kang, J.S., and Choi, Y. We proposed a method to find, using only flight times (keydown/keydown), whether a medium-sized candidate list of possible texts includes the one to which the timings belong. Nor the text length neither the candidate texts list were restricted, and previous samples of the timing parameters for the candidates were not required to train the model. The method was evaluated using three datasets collected by non-mutually-collaborating sets of authors in different environments. False acceptance and false rejection rates were found to remain below or very near to 1% when user data was available for training. The former increased between two- to three-fold when the models were trained with data from other users, while the latter jumped to around 15%. These error rates are competitive against current methods for text recovery based on keystroke timings, and show that the method can be used effectively even without user-specific samples for training, by recurring to general population data.