BIOMETRICS: ACHIEVING ASSURED AUTHENTICATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE

摘要

Few would argue against the fact that the vast majority of transactions today are between people and machines. In the early days, the problem of identity was less about security than about managing access to a shared resource. All that was required was a way to interact with mainframe computers separately. And so was born the notion (or some might say the curse) of usernames and passwords. Although this concept was not designed to serve the needs of online transactions, to this very day we remain dependent on methods and technologies that fall short of providing assured authentication or real personal identification.