by Sak Wathanasin <sw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jul 9, 2008 at 02:02 AM
On 8 Jul, 19:35, Chris Ridd <chrisr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Ah - a doodle. A bit like a signature?
>
> > So banks have moved away from signatures to PINs.
>
> > Now he wants the rest of us to move away from PINs to signatures...
Hmmm...
>
> I used to think "digital signatures" were signatures that had been
> digitized. It was *quite* a long time ago ;-)
That is more or less the idea behind this scheme isn't it? But instead
of just digitizing the final form of the sig/doodle you capture the
data as it's being signed: pressure, speed, pauses etc. The dynamic
data for a forger would be very different from that of the genuine
card-holder. And since you no longer need a visual check, you don't
need a sig on the back of the card, so a forger would have to work
harder to get a sig to copy from.
