Biometrics
Description
Biometrics is the science of authenticating a person based on physical characteristics such as fingerprints, voice patterns, or retinal patterns. It is ET's expectation that biometric authentication may be used as an additional factor for authentication to applications which require a higher level of assurance than only a userid and password.
Publications
N/A
Resources
Wired News: Thinking Outside of the Box
Primary ET Contact
Renee Shuey RShuey@psu.edu
Collaborators
Professor Stanley Aungst, Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and joint faculty fellow in ASET and Consulting and Support Services (CSS), also a unit of ITS.
Expected Deliverable(s)
Evaluation of various biometric authentication techniques and possible integration in a multifactor authentication scheme.
Level of ET Involvement
Initiative Start Date
June 2003