Secure Biometric Multi-Logon System Based on Current Authentication Technologies

Abstract

The need for accurate authentication in the current IT world is of utmost importance. Users rely on current IT technologies to facilitate in day to day interactions with nearly all environments. Strong authentication technologies like the various biometric technologies have been in existence for many years. Many of these technologies, for instance fingerprint biometrics, have reached maturity. However, passwords and pins are still the most commonly used authentication mechanisms at this stage. An average user has to be authenticated in various situations during daily interaction with his or her environment, by means of a pin or a password. This results in many different passwords and pins that the user has to remember. The user will eventually either start documenting these passwords and pins, or often, simply use the same password and pin for all authentication situations.

This paper introduces a system developed to assist an average user with the host of passwords and pins that are needed for authentication. The system introduced will merge password and pin technologies with existing biometric technologies. These technologies will, in this system, interact with each other to provide optimum authentication.