Next generation biometric security system
M. Sujithra, G. Padmavathi · 2012
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.