'You can't leave your finger behind,'as biometrics fans never tire of telling us. In fact
biometrics have been promoted as a 'foolproof'way to authenticate an individual's identity …

The popularity of mobile devices and the evolving nature of the services and information
they can delivery make them increasingly desirable targets for misuse. The ability to provide …

Nowadays, replacing traditional authentication methods with authentication and
authorization infrastructures (AAIs) comes down to trading several passwords for one master …

Traditional authentication schemes utilize tokens or depend on some secret knowledge
possessed by the user for verifying his or her identity. Although these techniques are widely …

Most existing computer and network systems authenticate a user only at the initial login
session. This could be a critical security weakness, especially for high-security systems …

With the growing number of online accounts a user possesses, managing passwords has
been unprecedentedly challenging. Users are prone to sacrifice security for usability …

Biometrics authentication offers many advantages over conventional authentication systems
that rely on possessions or special knowledge. With conventional technology, often the mere …

We examine three biometric authentication modalities--voice, face and gesture--as well as
password entry, on a mobile device, to explore the relative demands on user time, effort …

In this work, a specific case-study of the development of a biometric authentication system
for mobile clients (iPads) has been reported. The case-study addresses specific questions …

Biometric technologies that are capable of identifying individuals through one-to-many
matching across large shared databases can provide convenient authentication services for …