KeCrypt Signature is a dynamic biometric verification system based on software initially developed by Marconi and made commercially viable by KeCrypt. KeCrypt Systems is now the UK’s leading software security company focusing on Identity Management and is increasingly being adopted by application developers as their preferred security Partner.
The reason is not hard to find. KeCrypt Signature has been proven to be the most reliable and acceptable biometric verification system for the authorisation of electronic forms and transactions.
Key verticals are:
- Financial Services
- Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals
- Local Government
- Law Enforcement
The Natural Choice
Biometric security systems rely on recording unique individual characteristics. But any process that involves comparing static images or stored templates can be susceptible to fraud or forgery.
Unlike other biometric products, KeCrypt Signature does not store a template, and therefore the signature cannot be replicated.
Why is Kecrypt so unique?
KeCrypt Signature verification analyses a handwritten signature produced on a touch screen or pad as a conventional waveform, extracting certain parameters of this waveform and assigning them numeric values in order to build a set of software filters. These filters then provide the first stage in authenticating any subsequent specimens of the signature.
KeCrypt does not convert the signature itself to any time, frequency, or spatial-normalised template for use in techniques such as DTW (Dynamic Time Warping) or HMM (Hidden Markov Model) analysis. The filters record data that state how much a given part of a given signature is allowed to vary. The filter data, therefore, cannot be used to reconstitute any part of the signature. Therefore the signature cannot be forged or replicated.
Benefits
KeCrypt Signature verification has the following advantages:
- The signature is the most natural method of authentication and authorisation. A criminal can obtain fingerprints from a latent and easily replicate them.
- A signature demonstrates intention to authorise.
- The KeCrypt signature biometric works entirely on the dynamics of the way that the signature is written, making it virtually impossible to forge.
- The KeCrypt signature biometric means that template images do not have to be encrypted and managed, making personal biometric data secure from compromise.
- Written in Microsoft .NET, KeCrypt signature verification can be easily added to a Microsoft application by dragging and dropping a .NET control onto a form.
- Enables signature authorisation to be incorporated by developers in workflow and other applications.
- Allows image capture facility using Microsoft Ink.
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