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Article #2589Re: Handwriting technology - What good is it?
From: dr madill
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 1990 19:53
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 1990 19:53
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I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that when handwriting technology was being announce by IBM it was being announced as a security feature. IBM wanted to use it in place of passwords. They claimed that although people can forge other peoples signatures, they could not do so at the same speed, and placing the same pressure on the pen at different times. They claimed that this was a guranteed way of security. My thoughts are that this may work, but it would seem to be a fairly expensive solution. David
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!watmath!watserv1!sunee!drmadill From: drmadill@sunee.waterloo.edu (dr madill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Handwriting technology - What good is it? Message-ID: <1990Aug21.195351.368@sunee.waterloo.edu> Date: 21 Aug 90 19:53:51 GMT References: <5120.26d1113e@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <PORTUESI.90Aug21100419@tweezers.esd.sgi.com> Distribution: comp Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 11