Salve Ben! First it sounds a very smart idea to have biometric security, but sorry, when I give you some sceptical feedback.
On Thu, 01 Feb 2007, Ben Burdette wrote: > Here are a couple of items for the phone wish list: data encryption and > biometric security. Biometric "security" wasn't discussed by the OpenMoko community yet, I'm no crypto expert, but I'm not convinced that biometric worth the hardware... see: http://www.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren When somebody wants to play with biometric "security" the Neo1973 could be used for voiceanalysing - Print 7 random words to the screen and the user has to read them aloud ... > I'd like the phone to be a secure place for me to > store passwords and similar information. Are there plans to have some > security features like this, that would prevent someone from extracting > secure data from the phone if it was lost? A file could have an encrypted filesystem, acess is given only for a while and only while GPRS connection is on. If it is lost, use Internet or an asterisk server to unmount this file. > Having a fingerprint scanner would be more of a convenience feature so I > wouldn't have to enter a password whenever I want use the phone, or > alternatively when I want to access encrypted data. Sounds nice, but I have doubts that a fingerscanner is given real security. I will going to play with my (Debian) Crytoflex card, but not to make access more easy - to make it more secure. So when I have to lost both - my Neo and my Cryptotoken. projectblackdog.com costs 199US$+Chiping for me to expensive. But this is just my 2cents.... When somebody has such a finger scanner and likes to make it running with OpenMoko would be fine - but expect also some feedback that the fingerscanner concept is not so secure as it looks like: google "finger scanner site:www.schneier.com" Greetings, rob _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
