Over at Wikibooks, they’re trying to write an open source cryptography textbook.
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Posted March 11th, 2010
Posted March 11th, 2010
It’s good to dream:
IARPA’s five-year plan aims to design experiments that can measure trust with high certainty — a tricky proposition for a psychological study. Developing such experimental protocols could prove very useful for assessing levels of trust within one-on-one talks, or even during group interactions.
A second part of the IARPA proposal might involve using new types of sensors and software to gauge human facial, language or body signals that might help predict trustworthiness. Perhaps facial recognition technology that could deduce emotions or facial tics might help, not to mention better lie detectors.
IARPA is the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, the U.S. intelligence community’s answer to DARPA.
Posted March 10th, 2010
Since they are hard to conceal, the study says, noses would work well for identification in covert surveillance.
The researchers say noses have been overlooked in the growing field of biometrics, studies into ways of identifying distinguishing traits in people.
“Noses are prominent facial features and yet their use as a biometric has been largely unexplored,” said the University of Bath’s Dr Adrian Evans.
“Ears have been looked at in detail, eyes have been looked at in terms of iris recognition but the nose has been neglected.”
The researchers used a system called PhotoFace, developed by researchers at the University of the West of England, Bristol and Imperial College, London, for the 3D scans.
Posted March 10th, 2010
Good legal paper on the limits of identity cards: Stephen Mason and Nick Bohm, “Identity and its Verification,” in Computer Law & Security Review, Volume 26, Number 1, Jan 2010.
Those faced with the problem of how to verify a person’s identity would be well advised to ask themselves the question, ‘Identity with what?’ An enquirer equipped with the answer to this question is in a position to tackle, on a rational basis, the task of deciding what evidence will be useful for the purpose. Without the answer to the question, the verification of identity becomes a sadly familiar exercise in blind compliance with arbitrary rules.
Posted March 10th, 2010
Can you hear that? That’s the sound of air escaping as we all finally recover from the RSA conference. Rich and Martin are back, and Zach… never left (but did celebrate a birthday last week). We do a quick recap of RSA and then dig into the security news… much of which had nothing to [...]
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