On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:17:59AM -0400, Heyman, Michael wrote: | From | <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR20050 | 60802335_pf.html>:
| share its biometric data with government agencies, and | in fact, the full fingerprints are not stored in the | system. Instead, a complex mathematical algorithm is | created to represent identifying characteristics of | the fingerprint, which are matched to the real thing | when a user shows up at a checkout counter. | | No discussion on the threat of finger removal... | Has anyone ever studied the reversability of these algorithms? It seems to me that you could make some plausible guesses and generate fingerprints from certain representations. I don't know how likely those guesses are to be right. Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
