In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a client device
includes a biometric unit, a transceiver unit, and a cryptographic
engine. The biometric unit generates a first biometric feature at a first
time and a second biometric feature at a second time based on sensing a
portion of a human body. The transceiver unit sends and receives message
data over a network. The cryptographic engine encrypts and decrypts
message data, generates client public and private keys associated with a
client device identifier, and generates biometric public and private keys
associated with the first user biometric feature. The cryptographic
engine encrypts a hash of a first message data using the biometric
private key when the first and second biometric features match, and
appends the encrypted hash forming an authenticated first message data
that is encrypted by a server public key and sent over the network.