Securing Passwords With Your Lips

A password has become one of the most important features of functioning online. You have passwords to access the device, then your account, then a secondary level of security for transactions. There are so many passwords that you need to remember. And no matter how strong your password may seem, there is always a danger that it may get hacked!

What if it was possible to make your password even more secure? Researchers at the Hong Kong Baptist University  have invented a new technology to help do just that. They call it “lip motion password” and that’s literally what it does. Using the lip motions of the person to create a password.

Professor Cheung Yiu-ming from the Department of Computer Science has lead his team to create this technology. The idea came from the fact that a biometric measurement such as a fingerprint could not be changed once a hacker managed to copy it. However when you can move your lips and change the password, there are any number of combinations that the person can come up with using biometrics.

This system verifies a person’s identity by simultaneously matching the password content with the underlying behavioural characteristics of lip movement. So there are two layers of security and naturally the science project has received a lot of attention worldwide. Soon you would have to speak out your password and no one else will be able to hack it.