http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 3:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
Guess which is the "F" key.]]>Feb 20th 2010 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/]]>Feb 20th 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/then... If their not pants, what are they then?
gasp*]]>Feb 20th 2010 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
Yulebellow may be from the UK where our "pants" are their "trousers", and their "pants" are our "underwear". Savvy?]]>Feb 20th 2010 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Hmm... that seems more obvious. You win.]]>Feb 20th 2010 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
Those are cutoff sweat pants. The fly is badly stitched.]]>Feb 20th 2010 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Am I right?]]>Feb 20th 2010 2:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 2:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
Then I put my glasses on and realized that it was a dude...]]>Feb 20th 2010 2:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 3:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
These login systems also take device forensics into account as well, so it can recognize whether you're logging in from your desktop, laptop, iPhone, etc. If the typing cadence were kept track of with a device in would just be one more useful piece of trying to determine the likelihood of fraud.]]>Feb 20th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
"What is Crtl-Alt-Balls?".]]>Feb 20th 2010 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 3:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/WIN!!]]>Feb 20th 2010 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
I believe the cadence of your rhyme was perfect. Login successful.

]]>Feb 21st 2010 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 3:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 4:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
A UC Berkley student did the audio password retrieval thing back in 2005.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/13/1644259
]]>Feb 20th 2010 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 4:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
Pattern recognition using markov models is actually the most direct application of upper level math I've ever used.]]>Feb 20th 2010 4:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/congratulations,
here's a cookie...
*passes a cookie*]]>Feb 20th 2010 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/what about using different keyboards (laptop and desktop for example)... for sure you will get different "Cadence" pattern. what about your "mood" .. my typing speed and pattern depend in my mood (i type much slower if i am relaxing and use my laptop, while much faster using my office desktop).]]>Feb 20th 2010 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
I'd be concerned about that a bit. For example, sometimes I type my passwords *very* slowly and one-handed when my dog decides she wants to sit on my lap. If websites needed me to match my usual cadence when typing in the password, I would have to always type the same way. ]]>Feb 20th 2010 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
I agree. I use 1password on my Mac's so I can use secure passwords unique to each site I visit. I only type usernames and passwords when it doesn't work. I find the technology an interesting exercise that will fall flat on its face. There is limited benefit, lots of potential problems (different keyboards, different moods, different situations requiring one-finger salutes) and it seems this will simply lock the right people out, and the wrong people will find a way to circumvent or reproduce the cadence detection.

Interesting and destined to fall into disuse.]]>Feb 20th 2010 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
Just don't try letting your dog sit on your lap when you are wearing those keyboard pants. She'll really mess up your cadence then!]]>Feb 20th 2010 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/"You password should contain numbers and special symbols, _AND_ have recognizable cadence with at least two pauses longer than one second"]]>Feb 20th 2010 5:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 21st 2010 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 6:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 6:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
More info here: http://www.clareitysecurity.com/solutions-intelligence.cfm]]>Feb 20th 2010 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/
Basically, it's the timing of your key presses. ]]>Feb 20th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/20/typing-cadence-used-to-identify-authorized-database-users-loc/Feb 20th 2010 2:45PM