Verifying Identity via Keystroke Characteristics

Abstract This paper reports on an experiment that was conducted to assess the viability of using keystroke digraph latencies (time between two successive keystrokes) as an identity verifier. Basic data are presented and discussed that characterize the class of keystroke digraph latencies that are found to have good potential as static identity verifiers as well as dynamic identity verifiers. Keystroke digraph latencies would be used in conjunction with other security measures to provide a total security package.