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Q: What is that method that you came up with?
Hagberg: Fujitsu looked at a range of products and determined that vascular authentication - reading vein patterns and specifically in the Palm - is best.
Our product is called PalmSecure, and what it does it takes a snapshot of blood moving through your vein. Looking into it from three-letter agencies and the government which are very high in security, department of defense applications, this says something.
They call it Liveness Detection, which means you have a live body with biometric authentication.
Many other biometric authentications can be fooled without live bodies or without live body parts. Fingerprint and iris scans are examples.
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Q: Ultimately, though, this is still an image, is it not?
Hagberg: Yes, that's correct, it's an image. But it's the image of moving blood, not of a static pattern. So there are many of professors in the universities in Japan who have been making a practice of trying to spoof biometrics, and they've been unsuccessful here. They've broken every other biometric except for our vascular vein PalmSecure Product.
Q: But with all biometric devices there is a variance factor. The scan that I do today isn't going to be exactly the scan that I do tomorrow, is that correct?
Hagberg: Well, I think with anything you take it from kind of a multiple snapshot scan of the pattern in your hand. Fujitsu's research into this over the last 10 years--of working with the product and in general--has shown that there is no variance in your vein pattern without catastrophic injury--meaning losing part of you hand. If you have a cut on the external surface of your hand or other damage externally, it doesn't affect the blood flow through the vein pattern. Your muscle or structure of your hand is developed from childhood and continues as you move to adulthood. Those veins have settled into place. So the vein pattern signature that you see when you register stays the same. The vein pattern from number of years ago when I registered is no different than when I walk through the facility today to get into our building.
Q: I guess what I was after--I know with certain retina scans you have to fix your eye on a certain dot and then it takes a only scan of a particular region. So you're looking at the entire hand--you're not looking at a subpart of the palm?
Hagberg: Correct. That's one of the differences. We looked at iris scan.
We looked at facial recognition software and other types of voice recognition software in our thoughts about moving to a higher level modality of biometrics. We determined the iris scan--just from a peer use standpoint, as you highlighted--you're constantly concerned about the pattern or the particular area in the iris you're looking at but you have a use concern.
I met with some very high-level executives within IT departments of the U.S. security agencies in the last month and I asked them how many of them were comfortable having their iris scanned everyday. Not one hand went up. So, that's what we found in research in Japan. With both government and corporate employees, they wondered what happens to your eye when it's scanned everyday for the next five years. Even though you'll say it's harmless, they don't feel comfortable about it.
The other thing that we also uncovered in our focus groups and customer discussions was contact.
When you look at fingerprint or you look at any other even iris you're either touching a pad with a fingerprint or you're leaning against something, a pad for an iris, to position your eye correctly. Say the person in front of you is sweating, they're leaning against this pad or touch that pad or they're leaving SARS or avian flu, you know, on that device for you to touch and your eye is one of the most sensitive areas in terms of the transmission of disease; so are your hands. Touching things with your hands or getting close to touching things with your eyes is a concern for transmission of disease. Having a contact-less product like ours where you are holding your hand above the device has satisfied that hand hygiene and kind of transference of potential contagious disease concerns that we uncovered in our research. We've addressed it where I think iris and fingerprints still have a long way to go to address those concerns.
Source: News.cnet.com
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