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Keystroke dynamics is a behavioral biometrics representing the typing rhythm of a user interacting with a keyboard.
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Keystroke dynamics focuses on extracting quantitative information about the typing rhythm characteristics of a user interacting with a system equipped with a keyboard interface. Therefore, it has potential applications for the automatic recognition of users interacting with personal computers, ATMs, cellular phones, and any other device with keys. The first documented observations that each user has a unique way of typing dates back to the end of the nineteenth century, when telegraphists were able to identify other operators listening to the rhythm of their Morse code sequences. However, the first application of keystroke analysis to user recognition is much more recent [1]. Keystroke dynamics is a nonintrusive biometric trait, which is also widely accepted from end users. The data acquisition does not require either special hardware or any...
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Campisi, P., Neri, A. (2011). Keystroke Dynamics. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_877
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