Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 06:49:08 -0600 From: David McNett <nugget@slacker.com> To: Michael Aronsen <mar@netcentralen.dk> Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fingerprint authentication? Message-ID: <20010323064908.A28521@dazed.slacker.com> In-Reply-To: <9164771DDCABD3118333005004E9446E43265B@mother.netcentralen.dk>; from mar@netcentralen.dk on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:28:20AM %2B0100 References: <9164771DDCABD3118333005004E9446E43265B@mother.netcentralen.dk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 23-Mar-2001, Michael Aronsen wrote: > Has anyone been working on or know of any work being done on getting any > fingerprint gadgets working in FreeBSD? This is mostly off-topic, but I wanted to take the opportunity to point out an excellent treatment of the downsides of biometrics (fingerprint gadgets being the most popular such device these days) and concerns that you should be aware of if you're considering adopting biometrics for authentication in your environment. Inside Risks 110, Communications of the ACM, vol 42, n 8, Aug 1999 "Biometrics: Uses and Abuses" by Bruce Schneier http://www.counterpane.com/insiderisks1.html -- ________________________________________________________________________ |David McNett |To ensure privacy and data integrity this message has| |nugget@slacker.com|been encrypted using dual rounds of ROT-13 encryption| |Austin, TX USA |Please encrypt all important correspondence with PGP!| [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://members.slacker.com/~nugget/ iD8DBQE6u0ZEs3nEpeQ8X8MRAlasAJ0akSrs+WCgoyKj0rqZ+m86jEYNngCgpJEq EpptpLSrk46JD2fJvmJBEoc= =WVqD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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