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November 12, 2007
Psylock Claims Password-killer
When it comes to biometric methods to secure office applications and networks, it's either fingerprints, voice prints, retina analysis, or other scannings of body bits. Now a Regensburg-based startup called Psylock is introducing a new method to the mix, it checks users typing cadence to make sure the folks logging in are indeed who they say they are.
The user enters a single sentence, rather than a password, and its software checks typing speed, rhythm, agility, corrective behaviour and use of shift keys, according to a report in SC Magazine.
Psylock's tech has already been implemented by the University of Ratisbona, according to its website.
The benefit of Psylock's wizardry is that it has the security of a biometric solution, but it not as expensive, and it removes the threat of shared passwords, according to SC Magazine. "It makes passwords obsolete," a company representative said in the same report.
The report from SC says it was one of five finalists chosen at a conference in London last week in London (Global Security Challenge, an annual competition).
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