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Exchanging Pictures To Generate Passwords

Posted by timothy on 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.'"

2 of 123 comments (clear)

  1. the greatest journalist ever by ral8158 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hi Roland! What's up? I haven't seen you in a while!

    ...seriously?

  2. And within 30 seconds on /. by Secret+Rabbit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... it's completely broken.

    So, who's this Ph.D. candidate and her supervisor? Because, I want names. I want to know who to stay the hell away from with regards to security.