password authentication thru ketstroke latency

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3 total messages Started by cyhutson Wed, 22 May 1991 14:01

#453

Author: cyhutson
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 14:01

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Hi there,

Can anyone pleez help me!!!!

I am looking for information on the subject "Password
authentication thru keystroke latency"

However, the subjects of typing skill and/or
performance will also be covered, as well as
biometrics.

Pleez help - any help will be greatly appreciated
PS : help can mean references, personal suggestions,
code, or anything!!!


Thanks again
celia
cyhutson@images.cs.und.ac.za

Re: password authentication thru ketstroke latency

#454

Author: Dale Larson
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 19:08

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In article <1991May22.140154.21314@images.cs.und.ac.za> cyhutson@images.cs.und.ac.za writes:
>I am looking for information on the subject "Password
>authentication thru keystroke latency"
>

Try "User Authorization Based on Keystroke Latencies" on page 168 of the Feb.,
1990 Communications of the ACM.


-- 
          Dale Larson, Software Engineer, Amiga Network Development
                           dlarson@cbmvax.commodore.com
"A distributed system is one that stops you from getting any work done when a
             machine you've never even heard of crashes" -Lamport

Re: password authentication thru ketstroke latency

#455

Author: John Lacey
Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 03:24

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dlarson@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Larson) writes:

>Try "User Authorization Based on Keystroke Latencies" on page 168 of the Feb.,
>1990 Communications of the ACM.

There was a short story based on this idea.  I don't remember where I
read it.  I think it was called Mousetrap.  It was not in an SF
magazine.  Hah!  (Memory is a really wierd thing.)  It was in Life,
circa 1980.

(I remembered this because I tried to remember what the magazine
*felt* like, and I realized it was big and with lots of pictures, then
I remembered I once had a collection of about 5 Life magazines from
1979--1980, and ....)
-- 
John Lacey,  Schemer, TeXnician, and MacHacker
"It's hard to tell you how I feel without hurting you."	--Soho

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