Iris representation and recognition of humans based on characteristic eye features have taken a significant place in security and identification systems in the past two decades. The first steps in this field were made in the early 90's of the last century by John Daugman who designed the integrodifferential operator for detecting an iris and a pupil in an image. This paper will analyze the process of human identification based on iris features, as well as the impact of the Daugman operator parameters on its performance.