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Re: Biometrics
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:13:30 +0200
On 2005-07-08 Trevor Jennings wrote:
Hi, I have a bank customer who wants to roll out a biometric (fingerprint) solution in an AD 2003 enviorenment for his branch sites. His primary goal is to reduce password administration and secondary goal is to provide more secure authentication. Does anyone know of any banks that have implemented such a solution? Has anyone had experience with 'digital persona's product? Any thoughts on bio-metric vendors, reviews or even ideas about token based auth (remember password emimination Is the key).
Not an answer to your question, but some points you (and your customer) might want to consider, since biometric authentication has various security-related issues: 1. With biometrics you always have to find a balance between false accepts (wrong person get's access) and false rejects (valid user doesn't get access). 2. Fingerprints can be easily forged [1], and people leave their marks around everywhere they go. 3. How will you handle a biometric token (i.e. fingerprint), that gets compromised? People usually have only ten fingers. [1] http://www.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren.xml?language=en Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
Current thread:
- Biometrics Trevor Jennings (Jul 11)
- Re: Biometrics Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jul 12)
- Re: Biometrics Eduardo Kienetz (Jul 13)
- RE: Biometrics Jean François Quéralt (Jul 18)
- Re: Biometrics Chris Douglas (Jul 18)
- Re: Biometrics Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jul 18)
- Re: Biometrics Eduardo Kienetz (Jul 20)
- Re: Biometrics Eduardo Kienetz (Jul 13)
- Re: Biometrics Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jul 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Biometrics Vinsik, Steven C (Jul 12)
- RE: Biometrics Vinsik, Steven C (Jul 13)
- Re: Biometrics Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jul 18)
- RE: Biometrics Brunner, Mark (Jul 18)
- RE: Biometrics Vinsik, Steven C (Jul 20)