Fingerprint recognition is subverting the world of "passwords and keys."

Log in to an app, when you're typing a more than 10-character password on a keypad, the next person is a little bit on the home button on the phone and it's done. Alipay consumption, when you are still in the graphics password, payment password and mobile phone verification code of a lot of breakthroughs, The person next to the fingerprint has been used for 2 seconds to complete the consumption; standing at the door of the house, when you are still in the bag for three minutes to find the key to open the door, the next door with a fingerprint password lock neighbors have been sitting at home drinking tea ....

Biometric identity authentication technology, represented by fingerprint identification, is subverting the world of "passwords and keys".

Intelligent hardware tide for fingerprint identification

Samsung Fingerprint lock shs-p718

Fingerprint locks have been updated for generations in Samsung's smart home products. In the newest product shs-p718, the fingerprint lock can hold 100 fingerprint, combine set 10 group of password. Users can set their own open mode: fingerprint, password, password + fingerprint, RF card, key card or mechanical key. In order to prevent power outages and other emergencies, fingerprint lock also equipped with 5 emergency keys.

Samsung fingerprint lock Opening mode

In addition, the fingerprint lock also has the networking function, may with the family intelligent system docking. In detail, Samsung fingerprint locks are also done very carefully, once the sensor detects any movement within 70 cm range, equipped with infrared sensors will automatically activate the system.

Startups, based on fingerprint recognition and mobile internet, are also emerging.

Shenzhen intelligent hardware start-up company duo Dream Team, the traditional fingerprint timecard and mobile internet to do a deep combination, so that the clock also become more intelligent, more humane.

At present, the domestic market mainstream traditional attendance machine, hardware for embedded development, software more to the PC-side view and record-oriented. In the administrative statistics, staff information timely review and so on, there are many inconveniences, product pain point is very obvious. However, because the whole attendance machine market is small, less attention, more than 10 years with the development of recognition technology, in the user experience feel no significant innovation breakthrough.

Shenzhen duo Love Dream Technology Co., Ltd. Entrepreneurial project, "Wang Cai Internet attendance Machine", will be the PC end, attendance machine, mobile phone app end through the cloud fusion, remove the traditional machine from the connection, data transmission synchronization, manual compared to the cumbersome steps, so that anytime, anywhere to view attendance, intelligent statistical attendance. Through the PC side intelligent set scheduling time, simplified report display output. At the same time, increased support for the mobile Internet, through the app client, employees can easily achieve the GPS positioning of the appointment clock, WiFi clock, no longer need to worry about the elevator or queuing up late, and do not worry about the rush to leave when the emergency forget to punch in.

I love dream President Frost Month to NetEase technology, Wang Cai Internet attendance machine in the naming time platform to obtain the public financing has been close to 300,000 yuan, for an enterprise-class products, Frost month for the current public financing has exceeded expectations. It is understood that the dream of love is also with a number of investment agencies to engage in a round of financing matters.

Fingerprint identification will be standard for mobile phones

When Apple released its iphone5s in 2013, it realized fingerprint unlocking and the App Store's fingerprint payment function. Apple is the first person in the handset maker to eat the crab.

Perhaps to see the effect of Apple test water is good, this year, a number of new mobile phones at home and abroad follow-up fingerprint recognition function. Samsung Galaxy S5 has added a Fingerprint identification module to the home key, and HTC's new machine also has a fingerprint sensor installed on its back flash position. There is news that Huawei, the charm family and other domestic brands in the new product launch will also be added to this function.

Lenovo Cloud Services Group Internet certification Business director Tri Zhongyong that mobile phone as the most popular terminal, once the fingerprint identification as a mobile phone hardware standard, will greatly promote the use of fingerprint identification technology and promotion. With fingerprint-identified handsets coming on the market, fingerprint recognition will explode next year.

Just as a mobile phone's built-in sensor activates a large number of steps in app and fitness apps, fingerprint recognition will create more space for imagination and entrepreneurial opportunities in lieu of the basic functions of passwords.

Alliance-type standard to help industry chain unification

In addition to benefiting from the popularity of hardware, the Federation of Standards is to help the rapid development of the industrial chain of power. For example, the development of technology in the history of USB interface, mobile phone charger interface, HTML5 Standard, and so on, no one has experienced the unification of the Alliance standardization.

July 2012, Lenovo, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Intel, ARM, Samsung and other 48 technology companies set up the Fido (Fast identity online, fast identification online) alliance, and Lenovo is one of the only domestic companies.

The Fido alliance's slogan is "Kill the password" (Kill passwords), in order to build on the open protocol standard online authentication as the goal, reduces the user to the password tradition dependence. At the same time, Fido is also an open standard network authentication protocol, which supports continuous, secure, password-free access to Web applications.

"Only a unified standard can be the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain." "This is the consensus of many technology companies.

Fingerprint identification involves a wide range of industrial chains: chip manufacturers--handset manufacturers--fingerprint sensor providers--identify fingerprints into code and implement the certification process of the solution provider, of course, and Alipay this technology to the landing of the application side.

Each role in the industry chain position is different, such as fingerprint recognition in the world more than 100 companies are doing, the biggest is authentic and validity, one is for Apple supply, one is for Samsung supply. In the certification phase, Lenovo Cloud service group launched a new identity authentication technology, not only can be provided to mobile phone manufacturers, but also can be applied to banks, enterprises and other scenarios, not only can be applied to fingerprint identification, but also applicable to iris recognition and other standards in line with the Fido Alliance standard Technology.

Alipay Fingerprint payment screen, the lower left corner of the "Fido Alliance" logo

In addition to the fingerprint payment technology, the Fido Alliance is also developing biometric, speech recognition, face recognition, USB authentication tokens, NFC and one-time passwords, and other Internet authentication technologies.

Perhaps in the near future, whether it is Taobao micro-letter such as network payment means, or go out of credit card shopping this online payment mode, simply blink in front of the camera, the microphone to say a word, or in the card reader press, you can instantly complete the payment verification.

"Closed" apple

It is noteworthy that Apple is not in the Fido alliance.

This is a bit like the relationship between Android and iOS, where the Fido alliance is open source, as long as it adheres to the standards of the Fido Alliance, whether it is a handset manufacturer, a chip dealer, a technology provider, or an internet company. But Apple's current fingerprint identification is not open to third-party use, so it can only achieve its own two functions.

Apple iOS is relatively safer in terms of both overall system security and fingerprint authentication than open source systems, but only if you don't escape.

However, at this year's Apple developer conference, Apple has opened up many third-party interfaces to developers, which are also thought to be the result of pressure from open source systems such as Android. So in the near future, Apple may also open the fingerprint identification interface to third party developers, which is worth looking forward to change.

In addition, Apple may have extended its fingerprint recognition to the new ipad mini at Apple's September launch, which will further boost the popularity of fingerprint authentication techniques.

Is fingerprint authentication safe?

Fingerprint recognition is so wide, is this way safe?

For this problem, we need to divide the fingerprint collection and fingerprint authentication two parts to answer.

In the fingerprint acquisition phase, fingerprint card machine, such as the use of fingerprint identification technology security is low, users can simply copy the mode of the cheat. But a new generation of fingerprint payment technology (such as Samsung S5 mobile phone and fingerprint lock fingerprint technology) has a biometric recognition function, can identify the dermis, so the copy of the finger, or the finger is not through recognition.

In the fingerprint authentication stage, Lenovo Tri Zhongyong to NetEase technology, in this technology, Lenovo to the sensor identification of the fingerprint into a string of keys, in the mobile phone local fingerprint matching, will only be compared to the results of the transmission "YES OR NO". In this process, all fingerprint data will be stored in the local device, will not upload to the cloud, even if the server is under attack, it will not cause security incidents. (Note that this does not mean that all fingerprint identification will not upload your fingerprint information.) Apple has previously denied it, but foreign security experts have said it is dangerous to build large, cloud-fingerprint repositories. ）

Is that fingerprint data being stolen locally? Lenovo explained that in Alipay's fingerprint payment program, when the user's fingerprint data is entered into the mobile phone, and stored in a tee environment isolated from the main operating system, we can interpret the tee environment as a black box, which cannot be read by the outside world, and the main operating system appears to be a kind of Trojan horse, Fingerprint data is still safe.

Overall, the security of fingerprint payment is much higher than the digital password.

At present, there may be a small part of the user's fingerprint unrecognized situation, such as those who are born without fingerprints, or fingers seriously injured, long fingers soaked in water or chemicals, may also affect the fingerprint identification rate. In this case, the user can switch from the fingerprint password back to the digital password on the line.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)