The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a new identification method that allows users to read biometric data during normal keyboard operations
The initial goal of the program is to identify a person who works in a normal environment - without disrupting normal work.
The goal of the new DARPA program is to develop an "active method of authorization", which assumes that the identity of the user will be established by "individually working with the keyboard using actions that are usually performed."
The active authorization program will replace the current authorization procedure "by abandoning the password kept by the user in secret" and moving to the use of "secret information that is contained in the user himself," says the DARPA documentation.
Classic biometric authentication methods involve the use of additional steps required to identify individuals, such as placing a finger on a special scanner. Retinal scans are another popular identification method.
However, the Pentagon apparently decided that all these methods are expensive and take a relatively long time to carry out identification operations.