EyeLock peers into biometrics in the cloud

Iris recognition firm EyeLock has released a white paper studying the impact of biometrics in the cloud.In its paper, EyeLock writes that as users, applications and devices leave the safety of the enterprise network and move toward the Cloud, identity protection becomes critical to maintaining security.”Biometric authentication offers an elegant solution to the problem of high-security user authentication.”But the firm says thatalthough biometric authentication is a preferred solution, it currently suffers from “challenges that must be addressed before Cloud-based authentication becomes a viable option”.The firm's whitepaper is being used to present a new biometric protection system developed by EyeLock's Advanced Research Labs to address those challenges, called the BioDentity Suite.For example, the company's solution aims to address the uncertainty in biometric sample acquisition.”The panacea for biometric enrollment and authentication would be a system that is deterministic. i.e. you could always predict a predetermined value given a “fuzzy” (non-deterministic) input. Many researchers in the biometric field have tried, but none have proposed an elegant and workable solution. Until now”The company is proposing a solution called the BioTag protocol, which will work with Artificial-Intelligence-based error correction.”The BioTag protocol is in a category of authentication protocols known as Zero Knowledge Proofs. This means that a user can prove who she says she is without having to divulge any secret information to the authenticating server ߪ The biotag protocol assumes that the user can prove her identity in a deterministic way. That's where the use of our Artificial Intelligence engine comes into play”.

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