Word: musicrypt
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Keystroke authentication is the newest offering from the field of biometrics--the measurement and analysis of unique physical or behavioral characteristics--and it's accurate 98% of the time. "We've had more than 2 million deliveries without a leak," says John Heaven, CEO of Musicrypt, a Toronto-based digital-rights-management firm that arranges music distribution between record labels and radio stations or the press...
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...
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