Use of a Novel Keypad Biometric for Enhanced User Identity Verification

In everyday life many actions are secured and/or authenticated by use of a secret personal identification number (PIN). This paper reports an improvement to the security afforded by a numeric PIN system through the addition of a covert biometric identification process. This biometric identification...

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Published in2008 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference pp. 12 - 16
Main Authors Grabham, N.J., White, N.M.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2008
Subjects
Asynchronous transfer mode
Bioinformatics
Biometric Identification Keypad Security
Biometrics
Biosensors
Computer science
Force measurement
Force sensors
Instrumentation and measurement
Testing
Time domain analysis
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Summary:In everyday life many actions are secured and/or authenticated by use of a secret personal identification number (PIN). This paper reports an improvement to the security afforded by a numeric PIN system through the addition of a covert biometric identification process. This biometric identification process is achieved through the use of a modified keypad incorporating force sensors within the individual keys, these sensors permit the dynamic measurement of applied force and key-press timings, providing an advantage over existing keystroke dynamic techniques which rely on time-domain information only. Details of the experimental setup used are given, and the results from initial tests are reported. In these tests an equal error rate of approximately 10% is obtained and a false acceptance rate of15% with a corresponding false rejection rate of0% has been shown.
ISBN:9781424415403
1424415403
ISSN:1091-5281
DOI:10.1109/IMTC.2008.4546995