Heartbeat as Biometric Password

Schneier on Security 2017-01-19

Summary:

There's research in using a heartbeat as a biometric password. No details in the article. My guess is that there isn't nearly enough entropy in the reproducible biometric, but I might be surprised. The article's suggestion to use it as a password for health records seems especially problematic. "I'm sorry, but we can't access the patient's health records because he's...

Link:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/01/heartbeat_as_bi.html

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Tags:

authentication

Authors:

Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

01/19/2017, 09:36

Date published:

01/19/2017, 07:22