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Re: biometrics

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sidney Markowitz)
Mon Jan 28 15:16:08 2002

From: Sidney Markowitz <sidney@sidney.com>
To: Cryptography Mailing List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
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On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 14:07, lynn.wheeler@firstdata.com wrote:
> The issue then is that biometric represents a particularly
> difficult shared-secret that doesn't have to be memorized

Shared "secret"? People don't leave a copy of their PIN on every water
glass they use.

 -- sidney





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