Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

2004-10-15 Thread Peter Gutmann
Alan Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, John Kelsey wrote: but there doesn't seem to be a clean process for determining how skilled an attacker needs to be to, say, scan my finger once, and produce either a fake finger or a machine for projecting a fake fingerprint into the

Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

2004-10-15 Thread Peter Gutmann
Alan Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, John Kelsey wrote: but there doesn't seem to be a clean process for determining how skilled an attacker needs to be to, say, scan my finger once, and produce either a fake finger or a machine for projecting a fake fingerprint into the

Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

2004-10-13 Thread Alan Barrett
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, John Kelsey wrote: but there doesn't seem to be a clean process for determining how skilled an attacker needs to be to, say, scan my finger once, and produce either a fake finger or a machine for projecting a fake fingerprint into the reader. ... or a replacement reader

Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

2004-10-13 Thread Alan Barrett
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, John Kelsey wrote: but there doesn't seem to be a clean process for determining how skilled an attacker needs to be to, say, scan my finger once, and produce either a fake finger or a machine for projecting a fake fingerprint into the reader. .. or a replacement reader

Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

2004-10-12 Thread Tyler Durden
PROTECTED] To: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints? Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:34:19 -0700 Can anyone explain how sophisticated those fingerprint readers are? Are there readers out there that by themselves are secure devices

Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

2004-10-12 Thread John Kelsey
From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 12, 2004 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints? ... Very interesting question. I'd bet almost any amount of money that it's fairly trivial to simply alligator-clip-out the fingerprint's file from

Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

2004-10-12 Thread John Kelsey
From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 12, 2004 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints? .. Very interesting question. I'd bet almost any amount of money that it's fairly trivial to simply alligator-clip-out the fingerprint's file from

Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

2004-10-12 Thread Frank Siebenlist
,,SB109744462285841431,00.html The Wall Street Journal October 11, 2004 Cash, Credit -- or Prints? Fingerprints May Replace Money, Passwords and Keys; One Downside: Gummi Fakes By WILLIAM M. BULKELEY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 11, 2004; Page B1 Fingerprints aren't just for criminals anymore

Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

2004-10-11 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109744462285841431,00.html The Wall Street Journal October 11, 2004 Cash, Credit -- or Prints? Fingerprints May Replace Money, Passwords and Keys; One Downside: Gummi Fakes By WILLIAM M. BULKELEY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 11

Re: Cash, Credit -- or Prints?

2004-10-11 Thread Frank Siebenlist
,,SB109744462285841431,00.html The Wall Street Journal October 11, 2004 Cash, Credit -- or Prints? Fingerprints May Replace Money, Passwords and Keys; One Downside: Gummi Fakes By WILLIAM M. BULKELEY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 11, 2004; Page B1 Fingerprints aren't just for criminals anymore