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Re:Human Side-Channels: Behavioral Traces We Leave by ThrustVectoring on Monday July 22, 2019 @06:38PM (#20502936)
Back when naval communication was radio communication of manually keyed morse code, one major source of naval intelligence was recognizing the "hand" transmitting messages via the timing patterns of key entry. The messages were encrypted and that wasn't broken, but the timing patterns were essentially in the clear and gave up some useful information.

I wouldn't be surprised if you could generate signatures from the timing patterns of text input events in javascript, too.

Re:Human Side-Channels: Behavioral Traces We Leave by sidpatil on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:15PM (#20503417)
> I wouldn't be surprised if you could generate signatures from the timing patterns of text input events in javascript, too.

If I remember correctly, some MOOCs make their users type out an honor statement in lieu of a handwritten signature, and record the timing information as you suggested.