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Intelligent security grabs attention Nick Farrell / The Inquirer | May 26 2006 SOFTWARE that identifies you by your typing style is finally getting some attention after 13 years. The idea, designed by Marcus Brown, associate professor of computer science at The University of Alabama, and one of his now former graduate students Joey Rogers, got the pair a couple of lectures at that was about it. But now the University of Alabama has started to get a bit more agressive about marketing its inventions, security companies are beginning to take notice and some patent money is coming the pair's way. The system, which is being touted as a second level of identification after a password, requires a person to type in their name into a standard keyboard. The computer learns using the precise time that each key is pressed and released by its user. The two boffins have not worked out if this uniqueness is related to the exact physical structure of individuals’ hands, or the way individuals break up words, mentally, when they type them, or, perhaps, some combination of the two. They say that it could reduce the need for measures such as changing your password every six weeks. It means that if a hacker got hold of a password would not be able to duplicate the typing in of the user's name. Of course it is not clear if the whole thing is broken when your senses are addled by alcohol or other substances.More here. ---------------------------------------------------
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