And what happens when I am unable to press my thumb against the reader because it is bandaged; or when my thumb ID fails because it was sliced with a knife.
> > lets say you are replacing pin'ed magstripe card with a chip card needing > biometric ... say fingerprint (in place of a PIN) along with chip (in place > of magstripe). > > there are two issues 1) effort to compromise the biometric is still > significantly more difficult that a normal 4-digit pin and 2) there seems > to be a large population that writes their 4-digit pin number on their card > (as well as numerous tricks of capturing the PIN). Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer C-Kermit 8.0 available now!!! The Kermit Project @ Columbia University includes Telnet, FTP and HTTP http://www.kermit-project.org/ secured with Kerberos, SRP, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSSL. Interfaces with OpenSSH --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
