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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.'"

3 of 123 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I preferred shake to sync by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FAIL- Blend Cryptoanalysis has been shown to divulge information from such mobile sync schemes.

  2. why not linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    just make it all pictures of fags taking it up the ass and the linux users will all fall in line. fucking homos.

  3. posting link to unrelated penny arcade comic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/02/09/

    please mod funny, i need the karma :(