Keystroke Biometrics

Keystroke biometrics, previously called keystroke dynamics , and lately typing biometrics is a type of behavioral biometric that refers to the way people type. Keystroke biometrics is not a unified method of recording a user's typing timings and rhythm but rather a general idea starting from the concept that every person types in a unique way and if one can capture a person's "typing fingerprint", (also called typing pattern) one would be able to use it to authenticate that person afterwards. However, in reality we see tens of ideas, academic studies, commercial implementations and even patents trying to solve the issue of how to recognize people based on the way they type, mainly how to create a reliable method with high accuracy based only on recording timings from a user's typing. Keystroke biometrics main challenges: 1. Enrollment and authentication Typically typing patterns are recordings of a short identical text (such as the username+password com...