Electronic DNA Could be the Secure Login of the Future

University of Oxford researchers are working on a new form of secure login for all devices requiring a unique password. It’s called eDNA and contains up to 500 unique behavioral patterns that define the user.

"Like DNA it is almost impossible to fake, as it is very hard to go online and not be yourself. It is as huge a jump in the amount of information that could be gathered about an individual as the jump from fingerprints to DNA. It is that order of magnitude."

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Interesting but also from a security stand point totally scary as well. Passwords can be reset ... DNA.. can not.

I read "Electronic" as "Erotic"
xDDDD

After someone got ahold of my saliva and began charging bottles of water in Dubia, UAE I was forced to alternatively sequence my mRNA to incur a new code... That's why I trust LifeLock DNA Ultimate!

Identity theft in Pattaya Thailand is up 5000%. Be careful where you leave your DNA.

I'm not sure what they're talking about with this. How do you get enough information to log a person into a computer in the half second it takes to type in a password. Also I'm having to use my left hand now so I guess I'm no longer "me".I'd rather stick with 256-bit encryption.

Two queries for this system:

1. If it's biometric-ish based, how do you sign up for it? Could an attacker say "I'm Grebuloner!" and proceed to have all their patterns recorded as me and lock me out if I don't sign up first?
2. How does it deal with the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory?

You guys might want to read the article on this one...you are sorta off base on your assumptions.


OT - This wouldn't work for me..I change my behavior patterns all the time, it actually drives my wife insane.

average joe doesn't need this shit.
and no dna beats a gun to the head.

it is still set data and if it is stored it can be copied. I'd rather have something like the diabetics use that pricks my arm and confirms that I'm me and alive than any set of replicated behaviors that can be copied. Or we could just stick with passwords and two factor auth, but I want 10k encryption we have the space on our personal devices. maybe work environment has to stick with 2k due to server holding copies but it is really not that much data lets say 2k is 4 kilobytes for two words worth of 2k hashed data, now say your company has 10 million users. That is 40 billion bytes or 40 terabytes of passwords for 10 million users. So companies that big need a special auth sql server that stores all those. everyone else with less than 10 thousand users needs 40 megabytes... which fits on a usb stick with no issue. clearly it would have to be secured better than that, but most of us have a smart phone at this point it could be setup so that you connect over wifi, bluetooth, nfc, some new standard, etc... to your pc and using public key private key you could log in through your phone to your pc and no worries. Much simplier and safer. Your phone gets stolen you simply type the password in, and wipe the phone as soon as you notice it is gone.

Big Brother wet dream. A person might be able defeat facial recognition with a hat and makeup but they couldn't mask 500 different behaviors/traits. Researcher is trolling for NSA dollars

God forbid you develop MS