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Re: Biometric HA patent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sidney Markowitz)
Fri Feb 6 17:16:56 1998
From: "Sidney Markowitz" <sidney@communities.com>
To: <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:50:02 -0800
Am I understanding this correctly that it is a patent for encrypting
one's PIN with a secret key that is based on measurements of a body part
that you cannot change and that anyone who can scan that body part can
find out? I don't think that my thumbprint would be a very secure secret
key.
-- Sidney Markowitz <sidney@communities.com>
Electric Communities
