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Imagine a numeric (or whatever else) keyboard which can be used to identify your self to access some restricted data such as bank accounts, emails and so on. Currently everyone is sick by remembering so many different passwords. My concept is based on the way which people use to choose a random number. Believe or not the number you "generate" is never absolutely random, but strictly represents some patterns in your mind, ones that you might even not know about.
kiiid, Apr 19 2008
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This sounds preposterous to me. You type a bunch of numbers and hope it looks like something you typed before, so it lets you in? This has to be a joke. I can see people sitting at the ATM typing and nearly to the point of tears because they can't get their own money.
We'll all access with biometrics soon. Probably fingerprints recognized with sound-waves so as not to be fooled by pictures.
No. Apparently you don't understand the essence. The numbers of course will always be different the the PATTERN remains the same and unique for every single person. It is not just simple counting of numbers, though. You need to apply FFR and some statistical functions over the sequence in order to solve the pattern. Furthermore, biometrics are good, but they have a very big disatvantage - such as the currently mass used pin keyboards everyone can force you to enter your pin or put your finger to the sensor and you can do nothing abouth that. My method saves people from that. And also you might not know, but there are known way to trick the biometrics too. But you can't trick the brain pattern.
When I type 'patterns' on a keyboard, I'm most likely to type "asdfasdfasdf" I expect there's not much special about that. If your research keyboards are only numeric, then it would be a different sequence, but I'm still perplexed how you determined that each person would type a different sort of pattern. We all (mostly) have the same number of fingers, our brains are similar, etc.
How many numbers would I have to type before it even began to recognize a pattern? 100? 200?
As for a disadvantage of biometrics being a pin, you're mistaken, there is no requirement for a personal id number with a fingerprint. Also, as with any "key", a fingerprint or your number sequence included, someone can force you to use it.
As for the .jpg biometrics, we used to be able to fool them, but the soundwave machines seem to be impossible to fool-positive. And all of these algorithms are better every year. I've helped install many of these systems in the world's ports, where security is pretty important.