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 in the computer. If the digital code in the computer does not match the personal characteristic's 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 in dentations of a fingerprint. With the cost of fingerprints scanners less than $100, experts believe this technology will become the home user's authentication device for e-commerce......
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