Your Heart Beat As a Password -Smart or Stupid ?

Scientists from the Binghamton University in New York have explored with using a person’s heartbeat as a password for encrypting and then decrypting personal data.

Researchers say that each person possesses a unique electrocardiograph (ECG), which just like fingerprints and iris, can be used for authentication.

Binghamton researchers say that systems can be created that use these generally stable ECG measurements as keys for encrypting data and storing data.


Basically, scientists are proposing to replace random data (entropy) or static encryption keys with ECGs and use these unique parameters to secure a person’s data.

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