Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:20:25 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Eric F Crist <ecrist@adtechintegrated.com>, 'Ryan Thompson' <ryan@sasknow.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password security Message-ID: <3D109329.8050007@tenebras.com> References: <000c01c2174c$5a38f230$77fe180c@armageddon> <xzpr8j3ipbp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 1) Biometrics can't be used reliably for remote access. There are zero-knowledge protocols for secure remote use of biometric data. > 2) I don't know of any currently available biometric authentication > device that can't be easily fooled. Somewhat misleading -- any biometric method of identification has false positives and false negatives. For software engineers, this seems unacceptable, since we're used to boolean values for Truth. It's very useful for two-factor (or n-factor) authentication -- I have no idea how extensive your familiarity with biometric methods is, but several are quite promising. Some of the better ones (hand geometry) aren't suited to embedding in a laptop... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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