iphone new phone leads biometrics application trend

Electronic handwritten signature applications are very similar. People can use their fingers or stylus to sign on the touchscreen and apply the system to identify them. This technology has been used by some companies to help reduce clerical work. Now, the technology is striding into health insurance and financial services.

Now, when it comes to such technologies, the biggest concern is security, especially after a hacker group showed early this week how to unlock the iphone with a fingerprint image rather than a fingerprint itself.

Antonio Vila says it's not a big deal, and it's not as bad as it looks. Vila, one of the founders of the Spanish smartaccess company, who worked at Microsoft (Microsoft), wants to work in the electronic signature industry.

He said that fingerprint identification technology has a long history, there are many quality-grade sensors, if not the use of expensive technology, it is easier to hack.

He adds that electronic signature applications are often used in a variety of ways to ensure proper identification. After all, the key question is not so much that two signatures are exactly the same (humans can't do this), but that the application identifies the user's writing style, which makes it harder for hackers to hack the iphone's fingerprint recognition technology to replicate.

EchoSign, a slightly larger company, was acquired by Oddo Systems Inc. (Adobe) in 2011, and its vice-president, Jon Perera, said that potential users of electronic signatures misunderstood security issues, noting that such applications provide security protection, The degree of safety is higher than the use of physical copies or facsimile parts of any possible items. On the whole, the industry is successfully dispelling doubts. Smartaccess estimates that the global electronic signature market grew by 48% in 2011 and that 2011 was the last year to obtain comprehensive data.

In the next few years, the growth rate of various recognition markets is expected to exceed 10% per cent, in which biometric methods such as fingerprint identification and electronic signatures will compete with traditional methods such as passwords and PIN codes. In the most widely used biometric technology in the United States, 10% of companies have begun to use electronic signatures, EchoSign said, the ratio is expected to rise to 40% in two years.

The main reason for this is to save money. German company Softpro predicted that processing a document could save as much as $15 trillion, others said the cost of internal contract processing could be reduced by 50% to 75%, partly because of a sharp drop in demand for documents.