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How effective a tool are biometrics as an identifier?
Bruce wrote a special issue of his *Crypto-Gram Newsletter* sharing this thoughts about a number of "September 11" problems that touch upon his expertise: airline security, using biometrics in airports, diagnosing intelligence failures, protecting privacy and liberty, etc. I just had a thought.

US Using Biometrics to Track Terror Suspects
Which means his identity is fixed and permanent from that point on. Which of the several identities he's registered would that be then? Same problem with passports, only worse. ID cards using biometrics are the best way to fix identity. Only if they are unique and there is much doubt about that.

Physical NT security using biometrics
Not as brutal, some might successfully make an artificial copy of a real finger, or some might replay the electronic signals that the biometric sensors give. A practical problem with using biometrics is that some humans already have physical defects, eg missing arm, hand, fingers or eyes.

the pieces falling in place...
For instance, send the biometric data in some encrypted form to the server, and let the server do the authorization. "Danny van Kasteel" wrote: Hi, First off, I'm developing a multi-tier application framework. I'm trying to have client applications perform authentication using a biometrics device (or any other

biometric new tix turnstiles
That people should put up with this kind of thing is the most ludicrous suggestion I've heard since using biometrics for authentication (and if you don't understand why biometrics are not the solution to your authentication[1] problem, give up now: You Do Not Understand). Richard. [1] As opposed to identification.

Biometric encryption
Jeff Jacoby jaco...@ix.netcom.com alt books tom-clancy On Sun, 12 May 2002 21:31:00 -0500, loki wrote: [snip] There is much discussion going on about using biometrics rather than a conventional logon ID for folks accessing hospital computer systems. My feeling is that "it ain't there yet" but others are hot to

Using biometrics devices with PGP
On Wednesday, the California Democrat used her chairmanship of a key Senate subcommittee to convene a hearing on biometric systems -- but invited only government officials and biometric industry representatives to testify. No critics were permitted to speak. Nobody has a problem with private firms using biometric

Panther's File-Vault does not seem all that secure, to me.
This shows that NASA was working on data mining, that this work had relevance to CAPPS follow-ups, and that it envisaged a system using biometrics to check both with a central database and to match the booked passenger with the flying passenger (page 12). So far, so fairly prosaic, but the requirement "must detect

Who Here Would Object?
Very little of this time has been with biometrics. Many companies are moving to such security devices and in this sort of enviorment, and biometrics has its uses. However, in using biometrics when your life depends on it is, IMO, the empotmy of stupidty because compuers fail. I have witnessed computers fail

Newbies in kernel (biometrics) - please guide
Charlie "Al Colombo" <sdm...@raex.com> wrote in message news:39bcdc98$0$35387$736eb2f4@news.raex.com... Just curious how many dealers are using Biometrics in their access control systems?? Thanks. Al Colombo -- Security Distributing & Marketing Magazine Phone: 330-484-4919 Fax: 330-484-0474 E-Mail: sdm...@raex.com.

Biometrics and public/private key encryption
Ben Hamilton ben.hamil...@conceptdeveloper.com alt security pgp If by 'steal' you mean that someone steals your finger, like cutting it off, then that won't help the bad guys (who ever they are). The blood pressure, temperature, presence of electrical current in a finger all change when you chop a finger off.

What About Biometrics??
John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com comp society privacy But while all these fears are understandable, we should not allow perceived or potential threats to our privacy to blind us to the positive uses of biometric technologies such as facial recognition. Ugh. There is a fundamental problem with using biometrics to scan

Biometrics
IMO, the whole point of using biometrics in this case is to render any keystroke logger useless. Seems like combining the two would re-open that vulnerability. Even with the biometric backup, the passphrase could still be intercepted. Or am I missing something? (As previously noted, I'm only a low- to mid-level

Physical NT security using biometrics
Nothing to do with biometrics. I need to control access to a web application from those PC's. One access option would be username/password entry, but I'd like to offer an alternate method based on biometric authentication to speed use of the system. Using biometrics will likely not speed up anything.

Cyber-cafes.org : What is Biometrics?
Regarding fingerprints: The series of vectors that results from plate contact biometrics imaging, interprets a static image of fingerprint ridges that come into contact Without knowing exactly what equipment Disney is using to scan fingerprints, I do know that most equipment returns similar format data streams.

RE :Biometrics
I read elsewhere that the new tickets would NOT be using biometrics. The only tickets using the biometrics are the ones that use them now (Annual Passes, And if you think about it a little more, Disney wouldn't benefit from using biometrics on these passes. It would slow down entry too much making everyone use

Look who's promoting identity card in Canada ....
The real down side to using biometrics is that once one is compromised, the owner is screwed to the wall. He can't change his fingerprint or retinal pattern and so, he's SOL unless there's an alternative. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF.

The Good Side Of Facial Profiling
COM alt security alarms Hi Al, We've been using it, though I would say it's less than 10% of the time. Mostly just the hand geometry units though. James Al Colombo wrote: Just curious how many dealers are using Biometrics in their access control systems?? Thanks. Al Colombo -- Security Distributing & Marketing

German airports using biometrics on employees,article link
Multi-modal passive biometric verification system that continually verifies the presence/participation of a logged-in user. You seem to be using Windows, like I am. I have to start work , could you guide me about how to go on my part . What made you think this is the right place to ask?

Physical NT security using biometrics
They call it Layered Biometric Verification, ie a combination of different biometric authentication processes. The idea is greater accuracy through cross-referencing, I suppose. Comments from anyone who knows of their stuff? www.keyware.be Thanks Haider --