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Heartbeat as Biometric Password (Schneier on Security)
2017-01-19 12:22

There's research in using a heartbeat as a biometric password. No details in the article. My guess is that there isn't nearly enough entropy in the reproducible biometric, but I might be surprised. The article's suggestion to use it as a password for health records seems especially problematic. "I'm sorry, but we can't access the patient's health records because he's...


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