Crypto-Sign® Products

What Is Crypto-Sign?
Crypto-Sign is a revolutionary patent-pending technology, which provides a highly secure authentication scheme as a replacement for the password or PIN. It uses biometric data captured from a secret sign, together with pattern recognition algorithms and other features based on velocity, direction, angle, etc to provide added accuracy and security. Crypto-Sign is a software-based, non-invasive biometric technology requiring no hardware other than pen-based input and using the current password or PIN infrastructure. The application requires submission of a secret sign (no display or inking) on a PDA or digitizer, which is statistically compared to a previously established template for the sign. A successful match releases any or all of the password, PIN, private key or authentic electronic signature to gain access to a system or to sign a document. The patent-pending Crypto-Sign system combines the "what you know" of the secret sign with the biometric data extracted from the timing and spatial characteristics of how it is made. The combination of these two identification methods with the "what you own" such as a PDA or smart card gives the system a high security, three level authentication system.

How Is Crypto-Sign Used?
Crypto-Sign® technology uses the biometric data from a handwritten sign to confirm the identity of a person -- stand-alone or enterprise-wide. Unlike a password or PIN number (where, if the number is known to the impostor, the system is compromised with 100% certainty) or tokens - which are often shared and could be easily lost, stolen or forgotten, Crypto-Sign provides secure remote authentication and trusted document authorization based upon a unique private personal identifier. Crypto-Sign offers a secure solution for communication, data privacy, document authorization, on-line shopping, electronic payments, on-line banking and much more. Crypto-Sign applications range from remote access control to systems, web sites, files and electronic documents to secure document signing for proof of authorship and delivery. It is ideal for secure storage, access to and retrieval of electronic documents from electronic vaults and, with the advent of the Net enabled wireless PDA, for conducting secure transactions and M-commerce from these devices. It would be an ideal technology to work in conjunction with an authentication server based service, using wireless PDA’s or wired PDA’s connected to Workstations or Laptops, where the pen-based hardware means of biometric input is already included.