Pay with fingerprints

Authentication of payment by fingerprints is gradually asserting superiority thanks to security as well as ease of use.

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According to TechnologyReview, Galaxy S5 is the first smartphone that users can use fingerprints to authenticate payments whether they are 'shopping' at stores, supermarkets or even online shopping through translation. PayPal payment service.

Earlier, iPhone 5s ' apple 'users were able to use the built-in fingerprint reader on the device to unlock (unlock) the phone or pay for apps purchased on iTunes' online store. Apple.

The payment system on Galaxy S5 can be considered as the first commercial deployment for a new protocol developed by FIDO Alliance (Fast Identity Online) , an alliance formed by companies. technology company.

'Today, we often have to enter passwords with 9 characters everywhere. This leads users to choose to use simple passwords, ' said senior vice president for global product solutions at PayPal, Joel Yarbrough.

Therefore, it is not too difficult to 'crime' to control users 'weak' accounts, and according to Joel Yarbrough, building a smart biometric experience (fingerprint technology). ) will help enhance security.

Basically, the protocol that FIDO offers is designed to make a fingerprint copy never 'leave the device ', instead the output of the fingerprint reader is used to create cryptographic keys that are combined with a cryptographic chip on the device to create a new key that cannot be copied.