News tagged with biometric
Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Hitachi, Ltd. today announced the development of a 3mm thick thin-type finger vein authentication module. Finger vein authentication is a biometric identification technology which employs near infrared light ...
Who are you? Mobile ID devices find out using NIST guidelines
Aug 26, 2009 |
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A new publication that recommends best practices for the next generation of portable biometric acquisition devices -- Mobile ID -- has been published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
BioVault locks up biometrics: Using biometrics for encryption, digital signatures
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 31, 2009 |
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A system that allows biometric data to be used to create a secret key for data encryption has been developed by researchers in South Africa. They describe details of the new technology in the International Journal of Electronic Se ...
Knobbly kneed ID: Internal body parts and biometrics
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Forget LED thumb-pad identification devices, complex retinal laser scanning, or even computerized iris recognition, the way forward for biometric validation is a quick X-ray snapshot of a person's knees, according to a report ...
Fingerprints and faces can be faked, but not brain patterns
Feb 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sensors able to identify individuals’ brain patterns and heart rhythms could become part of security systems which also use more traditional forms of biometric recognition, thanks to pioneering work being ...
Photo safeguards confidential information
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- These days you can take a photograph with almost every mobile phone. However, using this sort of photo to protect confidential data and send it safely is something new. Ileana Buhan, a PhD ...
Keeping an eye on intruders
Sep 04, 2008 |
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Electronic fingerprinting, iris scans, and signature recognition software are all becoming commonplace biometrics for user authentication and security. However, they all suffer from one major drawback - they can be spoofed ...
