Biometrics
Biometrics is the technology of authenticating a person’s identity by verifying a personal characteristic. Biometric devices grant users access to programs, systems , or rooms by analyzing some biometric identifier (Schmidt 54-62). A biometric identifier is a physical or behavioral characteristic. Examples include fingerprints, facial features, hand geometry, voice patterns, signatures, and eye patterns.
A biometric device translates a personal characteristic into a digital code that is compared with a digital code stored into a computer. If the digital code in the computer does not match the personal characteristics code, the computer denies access to the individual.
The most widely used biometric device today is a fingerprint scanner. A fingerprint
scanner captures curves and indentations of a fingerprint. With the cost of fingerprint scanners
less than $100, experts believe this technology will become the home user’s authentication
device for INternet......
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