From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jun 19 2:35:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED37437B415 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 02:35:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 7CD705361; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:35:08 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Eric F Crist" Cc: "'Ryan Thompson'" , Subject: Re: Password security References: <000c01c2174c$5a38f230$77fe180c@armageddon> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 19 Jun 2002 11:35:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: <000c01c2174c$5a38f230$77fe180c@armageddon> Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Eric F Crist" 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