Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 16:34:05 +0300 From: Alin-Adrian Anton <aanton@spintech.ro> To: Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-hackers@shapeshifter.se> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Cesar <listas@itm.net.br> Subject: Re: Fingerprint Authentication Message-ID: <445B544D.5070107@spintech.ro> In-Reply-To: <445B48E6.3070000@shapeshifter.se> References: <00fb01c66fb2$a8e157c0$0501010a@ironman> <445A5F48.60303@spintech.ro> <200605051009.49344.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <445AF8AB.9080008@shapeshifter.se> <445B35EA.5080009@spintech.ro> <445B48E6.3070000@shapeshifter.se>
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Fredrik Lindberg wrote: > > But that would sort of defeat the whole purpose of biometric > authentication and you could really just use public keys instead > which would be a lot faster and easier than scanning your finger > at each login. :) > Unless you locally encrypt your private key with information gathered by the fingerprint reader, as a "password". One can scan his finger only once, at first login, or when the system boots. Passwords are still considered a bit more safe then a fingerprint reader (as far as I know). -- Alin-Adrian Anton GPG keyID 0x183087BA (B129 E8F4 7B34 15A9 0785 2F7C 5823 ABA0 1830 87BA) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x183087BA "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire
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