Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:11:49 +0200 From: Bognar Attila <attila@ebizlab.hit.bme.hu> To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password security Message-ID: <3D109F35.9080106@ebizlab.hit.bme.hu> References: <000c01c2174c$5a38f230$77fe180c@armageddon> <xzpr8j3ipbp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3D109329.8050007@tenebras.com>
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Hi, > 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... The fact that biometric scanners are getting better and better does not mean that the applications using biometrics are good enough. There are two big problems: privacy and the fact that you have only 10 fingers, 2 hands... (the biometric patterns are quite "precious", they should be handled with _very_ big care - an encrypted channel is far from being a solution for other than trivial problems). attila ps: hand geometry based identification is not one of the best biometric methods for security critical applications (where uniqueness should be very important) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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