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From: john@basho.uucp (John Lacey)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: password authentication thru ketstroke latency
Keywords: passwords,keystroke,biometrics
Message-ID: <1991May25.032453.5595@basho.uucp>
Date: 25 May 91 03:24:53 GMT
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dlarson@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Larson) writes:

>Try "User Authorization Based on Keystroke Latencies" on page 168 of the Feb.,
>1990 Communications of the ACM.

There was a short story based on this idea.  I don't remember where I
read it.  I think it was called Mousetrap.  It was not in an SF
magazine.  Hah!  (Memory is a really wierd thing.)  It was in Life,
circa 1980.

(I remembered this because I tried to remember what the magazine
*felt* like, and I realized it was big and with lots of pictures, then
I remembered I once had a collection of about 5 Life magazines from
1979--1980, and ....)
-- 
John Lacey,  Schemer, TeXnician, and MacHacker
"It's hard to tell you how I feel without hurting you."	--Soho