Next generation biometric security system: an approach for mobile device security

  • Authors:
  • M. Sujithra;G. Padmavathi

  • Affiliations:
  • Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, India;Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In Information technology, biometrics refers to the technique that measure and analyse the human body characteristics either physiological and/or behavioural such as DNA, fingerprints, eye retina, iris, voice patterns, facial patterns and hand measurements for authentication purposes. Biometric Authentication is usually permanent and is highly difficult to forge. Biometrics is used to enhance the privacy and security issues which exist in the current techniques such as using password and remembering pin authentication. By using biometrics, a person could be identified based on 'who she/he is 'rather than 'what she/he has' (card, token, key) or 'what she/he knows' (pin, password). Considering all these advantages of biometric system along with the need for such security in the Mobile Devices such as Tablets and Smart phones, this paper surveys some of the biometric traits for Mobile device authentication.