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Biometrics: Technology That Gives You a Password You Can't Share


{LANG_NAVORIGIN} Authentication Biometrics
By: Yevgeniy Libov, 03/24/2004



User passwords have always been a big issue for administrators and for users. For administrators, it creates a huge workload to administer passwords. Users have a hard time memorizing their password, which creates a big security problem. For example, people making their passwords easy to remember thus their passwords making easier to crack. But as we all know - any password can be cracked. To make user authentication more secure, user should be identified not by "what he/she knows" but by "who he/she is"-a unique identifier, which cannot be easily hacked and cannot be passed to another user. Biometrics makes this technology possible.

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