There are many competing technologies behind fingerprint scanning and evaluation techniques, some which are rather weak and others which are quite strong. Forming opinions based on tests against a small subset of them is not exactly doing due dilligence.
Watching things like tv's MythBusters defeat fingerprint sensors is interesting and entertaining, but when you know they're using several year old, out-dated technology for the sensors they evaluate, you might suspect that there's more to the story that they're telling you. Disclaimer: I work for a fingerprint sensor manufacturer. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Michel Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: data encryption + Biometric security 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 _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
