Date: 19 Jun 2002 11:35:06 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: "Eric F Crist" <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> Cc: "'Ryan Thompson'" <ryan@sasknow.com>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Password security Message-ID: <xzpr8j3ipbp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <000c01c2174c$5a38f230$77fe180c@armageddon> References: <000c01c2174c$5a38f230$77fe180c@armageddon>
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"Eric F Crist" <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> writes: > Have you explored the idea of biometrics? It requires a piece of > hardware on each computer that is going to access the network, but the > way you're making your security requirements sound, the security benefit > is worth the cost. 1) Biometrics can't be used reliably for remote access. 2) I don't know of any currently available biometric authentication device that can't be easily fooled. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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