Exchanging Pictures To Generate Passwords

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 23, 2008 @12:59PM from the worth-a-thousand-words dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Today, Ileana Buhan, a Romanian computer scientist, is presenting her PhD Thesis at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. 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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I preferred shake to sync by aj50 · 2008-10-23 13:41 · Score: 5, Interesting

I preferred the shake to sync method where two phones would be held together and shaken randomly. Both phones take accelerometer measurements and use the pattern they were shaken in as a shared secret.

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Re:Oh Dear by yvesdandoy · 2008-10-23 20:40 · Score: 5, Interesting

Face pictures would be the public key and genitals ones the private one !
Problem solved. :))))))))))