Wearable devices could use your breathing patterns like a password

Subtle patterns in the way we breathe can be used to generate a secure password to keep paired smartwatches and smart phones safe from hackers

Wearable devices could use your breathing patterns like a password
Technology 31 July 2021

By Chris Stokel-Walker

woman wearing headphones

The mode we respire could support wearables similar headphones and smartwatches paired securely to your phone

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Wearable physics devices, specified arsenic earphones and smartwatches, are presently paired to smartphones and akin tech done a unafraid Bluetooth oregon near-field connection (NFC) nexus – but they could besides soon beryllium paired securely by the mode you breathe.

Jafar Pourbemany astatine Cleveland State University and his colleagues person developed a protocol that tin make a 256-bit encryption cardinal each fewer seconds – astir 1 quality breathing rhythm – based connected the mode a idiosyncratic …

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