Tuesday, April 19, 2005

DIGITAL IDENTITY

Here are some thoughts and definitions that I came across on a blog that is devoted to Digital Identity.
http://blog.onghome.com/2005/04/identity-ontology-taxonomy.html

A good contribution to existing concepts relating to identity management.

Saturday, April 09, 2005


Touchless Sensor

MITSUBISHI INTRODUCES ...

MITSUBISHI INTRODUCES WORLDS FIRST TOUCHLESS FINGERPRINT SENSOR

New fingerprint reader scans prints without touching skin. The world's first scanning device that reads fingerprints without touching the skin will hit the market this autumn, Mitsubishi Electric said.

The device could be used to enhance security measures at financial institutions and airports.

The new scanner uses light from a red light-emitting diode (LED) to read fingerprint patterns under the surface of the skin. Red LEDs are typically used in a wide variety of industrial uses, such as in automotive electronics or medical instruments.

Ordinary fingerprint sensors take prints using physical contact between the finger and a glass plate.

In some cases, however, such physical fingerprint readers are unable to take an accurate print when the subject's skin is rough, wrinkled or covered in perspiration.

In the new LED device, the user places a finger in the reader with the nail facing up. A light scans through the finger and analyzes the convex and concave patterns of the skin layer below the surface.

Financial institutions, eager to find ways to circumvent thefts of personal data and cash, are anxious to find devices like the Mitsubishi Electric reader to provide better identification at ATMs.

Friday, April 08, 2005


During IWWST Presentation

IWWST 2005 LONDON UK

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN WIRELESS SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES 2005, LONDON UK

The 3rd International Workshop in Wireless Security Technologies aimed at bringing together academics and industry in an effort to further and enhance the interactions between researchers and promoters of wireless technology.

IWWST 2005 is organised by the Wireless Information Technology Research Center (WITRC), Cavendish School of Computing Science, University of Westminster, in collaboration with the British Computer Society - Wireless Information Technology Specialist Group. Keynote speakers were from HP Research Labs, Monmouth University (USA),Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)

I presented a paper titled: "Hybrid Authentication Systems: Towards Robust User Authentication On Wireless and mobile Devices Using Biometric Technologies".

http://www.iwwst.org.uk

Saturday, April 02, 2005

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

• AVBPA 2005, July 20-July 22, 2005, Rye Brook, New York.
http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/avbpa2005.html
• National Academies "Whither Biometrics?" Workshop, March 15-16, 2005, Washington, D.C.
http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/whitherbiometrics_workshop.htm
• Biometric Technology for Human Identification (OR31), March 28-April 1, 2005, Orlando, Florida.
http://biometrics.cse.msu.edu/spie-or31.pdf• SCIA 2005, June 19-June 22, Joensuu, Finland. http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/scia05/
• ICIAP 2005, September 6-8, 2005, Cagliari, Italy.
http://www.iciap2005.it/
• Biometrics Symposium 2005, September 19-21, 2005, Crystal City, VA.
http://www.citer.wvu.edu/bsym2005/
• ICBA 2006, Jan 5-Jan 7 2006, Hong Kong. http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~icba/