Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:19:22 -0700 (PDT) From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> To: graham <graham@avint.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password security Message-ID: <20020619171922.48193.qmail@web10103.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <02061914352901.22345@hercules.avint.net>
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--- graham <graham@avint.net> wrote: > It's alot easier to fool Biometrics than you think. > I saw an episode of @discovery on The Discovery > Channel's Canadian channel > explaining how a mathematician and some grad > students could fool all the current > commercial biometric systems with common household > items available from any > supermarket. But I don't fully remember the details > of that paticular episode. > > I don't doubt it (although I missed the special), but I don't know anyone who advocates the use of biometrics as the sole method of authentication (US airport security aside...). Most of the time I've used them you either needed a badge with it, or a badge/PIN combo. The addition of biometrics to a badge or badge/PIN combo -even if it was tuned to give more false positives than negatives- makes a huge difference. So what interests me is could these guys beat the handprint reader WHILE they have a stolen/forged smartcard AND someone's PIN code (all matching the same person of course)? If they can do that then my hat is off to them and they should be Sneakers 2. ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- Only fools have all the answers. ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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