Photo cryptography
October 28th, 2008 by rbanks
Exchanging pictures to generate passwords?
“She is using biometrics to protect confidential information when it is exchanged between two mobile devices. This is a very innovative approach to security. Buhan’s biometric application will generate almost unbreakable passwords from photos taken by the connected users. Here is how it works. ‘To do this, two users need to save their own photos on their PDAs. They then take photos of each other. The PDA compares the two photos and generates a security code for making a safe connection.”
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