On this #WayBackWednesday, our 8-Bit history we examine how we incorporate humans into security. One example of this comes in the form of biometric authentication, ie., logging in to a service using a part of one’s body as identification (such as facial recognition).
In today’s world, we take for granted the ability to use facial recognition to unlock our phones. Although consumer facial recognition is relatively new, facial recognition itself has been around for a while. In the 1960’s, a team of three people, Woodrow W. “Bledsoe”, Helen Chan and Charles Bisson, were funded to do facial recognition research. And, excitingly, they were partially successful. Their research results were not widely shared, though, because of the nature of the agency that funded the research.
Since then, in addition to facial recognition, a variety of biometric authentication possibilities have been introduced, for example voice, fingerprint and iris recognition. Authentication, though, is not the only type of human-security connection. Cryptography is also an emerging field where the patterns of life offer interesting solutions to limitations of our electronic infrastructure. Learn more about this in Tayla Sellschop’s BSides Munich talk, “Bio-Lock the Future and Ethics Around DNA Cryptography”. https://youtu.be/B-LOWAqrcuU
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