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Re: biometrics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Altman)
Mon Jan 28 15:13:34 2002
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:38:11 EST
From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@columbia.edu>
Reply-To: jaltman@columbia.edu
To: lynn.wheeler@firstdata.com
Cc: jamesd@echeque.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com,
"P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:07:27 -0700
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.4.1012239491.jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
And what happens when I am unable to press my thumb against the reader
because it is bandaged; or when my thumb ID fails because it was
sliced with a knife.
>
> lets say you are replacing pin'ed magstripe card with a chip card needing
> biometric ... say fingerprint (in place of a PIN) along with chip (in place
> of magstripe).
>
> there are two issues 1) effort to compromise the biometric is still
> significantly more difficult that a normal 4-digit pin and 2) there seems
> to be a large population that writes their 4-digit pin number on their card
> (as well as numerous tricks of capturing the PIN).
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