DARPA wants to do away with passwords and use your behavior instead
Imagine sitting down at your keyboard, typing in your user name and starting work right away - no password needed. That's precisely what Richard Guidorizzi, program manager at DARPA hopes to one day achieve.
"What I'd like to do," Guidorizzi said, "is move to a world where you sit down at a console, you identify yourself, and you just start working, and the authentication happens in the background, invisible to you, while you continue to do your work without interruptions." No biometric sensors, like thumb print or iris scanners, would be used. Instead, he is seeking technology that relies solely on an individual's distinct behavioural characteristics, which he calls the cognitive fingerprint.
Continuous monitoring of a user's behaviour is obviously an essential element of DARPA's requirements. As the agency says, there is now no way "to verify that the user originally authenticated is the user still in control of the keyboard."
