Biometrics

Identity Theft has become an increasing trend on these days. many reported incidents of stealing private sensitive data for stealing credit card information or to access confidential sentisive data..

Biometrics has allowed to create a new approach additional to the old-fashioned login-password combination. this approach uses physical or physiological characteristics of the individual to privide access to sensitive data. This can be used as a single-factor authentication or combined authentication with other features, like specialized hardware for tokens and such.

METHODS FOR BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION

There are several techniques used ion Biometric Authentication, the

✓ Face: for identifying the layout of facial features measuring the distance and angles between each. ✓ Fingerprint: the thumb fingerprint is easy to use, each fingerprint is unique among population. uses small devices ✓ Handprint: like the facial it measures the distance and angle of different features in your hand. these measures are unique for the individual. ✓ Iris or retina: it even more distinctive for individuals, even twins will have different iris patterns. howver, hardware is expensive for this type of identification. ✓ Signature: it measures the ✓ Voice ✓ Watermarking

BIBLIOGRAPHY

(1) Biometric Devices Enable Secure Authentication [1] (2)A PRIMER ON BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY [www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1237/MR1237.ch2.pdf]