Word: biopassword
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Providing this enhanced level of protection for Musicrypt and its clients is BioPassword Inc., a security-software company based in Issaquah, Wash. Keystroke patterning was first employed by the military a century ago in its use of Morse code, which also allows senders to be identified by their tapping rhythms. In the 1980s, Stanford University scientists applied the technique to computer security. But it was not until BioPassword bought the patents from the school in 2002 that keystroke dynamics found its first commercial use. BioPassword's developers harnessed the technology into portable software and began selling...
...BioPassword's best customers so far are banks and credit unions, which are under federal mandate to adopt stronger authentication measures to protect online customers against identity theft and other fraud. To access account information, online banking generally requires a password with a maximum of 10 character points. Biometric IDs have more than 80 distinct data points...
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