-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Federal Business Opportunities (Jun 4) - "Ephemeral Biometrics: An Alternative to Traditional, Event-based Authentication" by Sandia National Laboratories: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=06e9abca57bdd9dac64902e39f039c4f&tab=core&_cview=0
Sandia National Laboratories is engaged in ongoing research and development into transformational upgrades in the area of cyber identity management as well as Insider Threat Monitoring by using Ephemeral Biometrics (EB). EB is unique because individual identities are tied to living biometric data that is active and continuous. The purpose of the research is to derive convenient authentication techniques (e.g., alternatives to passwords) that are both active and continuous while at the same time significantly improving authenticity and integrity of cyber identities.
"Ephemeral Biometrics: What are they and what do they solve?" by Sung Choi and David Zage of Sandia National Laboratories (2013): https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/zagedj/docs/iccst2013.pdf I'm not really sure what's ephemeral about redefining authentication to mean continuous monitoring. This work directly targets insider threat concerns raised post-Snowden, and provides further evidence that entities obsessed with secrecy will destroy their own effectiveness in pursuit of an improbable if not impossible definition of "security" which attempts to hermetically seal systems that include human beings. Good luck with that! gf - -- Gregory Foster || gfoster@entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTkgW/AAoJEMaAACmjGtgjxLIQALl48hrZKW1sWVWyIKcsb7hu 0ZPYm/FRrYnNHwAeAN/vWdVxrUyhRLKBCs+2H8v5C7Na2df1AqInZ1H9AGD1j84M iwZtHWMVkFvkcVDW+NMINRoHSjUdrPqIh+RP0KseMZTPTaelSD+tVEmUedSzOLgV km/OZ5URefIRSFjP3p6pA+YxZoZOU8UlwSxJFv9o4Vs/k1lwLDE+BYErabTXrFoe MWJhKhQWpisLD6QGBq+LRcTq+P+fpJlu6pRJFQR8mUIWsgZwr4OtQvXxjXFDO16K jaBVBSB0bdgQV4d8HLJE1dJek3fe1q9i9YEYBL2p91voTTKmPwkDIcmj9X9ZfNR1 lO5AXZh1H+rhO1OAfqlkvI0VYxAzO7AerKS+tPwh0lw3VSZYiBZawtJb3t/2snF9 R/02NRXfKZOFqKUQUH1bRkrFuKDRudmhtomafCek1MShVgR9BlAjFHcMjFa0gXBy FUo1D8ouzWYfwAM/0eVwDX9YAMX3tr3vl0KopFTEyFzolIapg9wbDeesIn4mu24P 8zDJUew+5wcHTc9ZPFZhdh6xGC9SoLvAPaqVTTSx3tTcxbdIouiIWyaQUOXNdteb KM9FEa+e9j5TggnaxuNuDpbBXVlKlou9oee/vge7OdS0EHqStPthckt3Vhp0Lv59 HzJ56AjJ0zh2iRLX/9Wt =KZuq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----