"Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Why is it, then, that banks are not taking digital photographs of customers >when they open their accounts so that the manager's computer can pop up a >picture for him, which the bank has had in possession the entire time and >which I could not have forged?
I don't know about photos specifically, but I know that signature imprints are often still moved around by laborious manual means because the background infrastructure to handle images doesn't exist. Most banks are still using 3270-style interfaces, even if they have a screen-scraped GUI front-end. There simply isn't any provision for handling anything other than basic text records - the data-centre back-ends are text-record based (and in some cases the text is EBCDIC), the communications channels send and receive text records (often at a few kbps over leased lines, X.25, or PSTN dialup), and the branch software processes text records. So using images (of any kind) isn't just a case of making an executive decision to do so, it would involve a massive, end-to-end infrastructure upgrade to implement. Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]