[10313] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Fingerprints (was: Re: biometrics)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith at Secure Computing)
Mon Jan 28 18:52:48 2002
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:07:06 -0600
To: ji@research.att.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Rick Smith at Secure Computing <rick_smith@securecomputing.com>
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At 02:46 PM 1/28/2002, ji@research.att.com wrote:
>The process took about 20-30 minutes;
Have you been fingerprinted before? Did it take that long in that case? In
my own experience, it only takes a few minutes to be fingerprinted on a
standard card and, in theory, they should be able to build a database from
high-res fingerprint card images. Some small percentage of the population
has prints that are unusually hard to read. It might be time consuming to
put such a person's prints onto a card.
Or perhaps it takes 20 minutes of ablutions and purifications to copy a
fingerprint card, so they figure they might as well make the subject wait,
too.
Rick.
smith@securecomputing.com roseville, minnesota
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