On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:44:25PM +0530, Vishal Rao wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2008 10:34 PM, Vasily Khoruzhick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think if there's two accounts with same fingerprint enrolled, these 
> > accounts
> > belong to one unique person, aren't they?

> Doh, of course, 2 accounts belonging to the same user, ok, now I get it.

> All this time I thought you were saying if a fingerprint scan
> erroneously matches 2 different users' stored prints :-)

I was thinking this too. Reason being, the place I work at provides some
biometric solutions to customers, and the devices we use offer both verifying
and identifying. After much testing, we *never* now use identification, as it is
not all that uncommon for two people to have fingerprints that will identify as
each other. When you are trying to identify one person out of > 100, the chances
of two fingerprints from different people matching seem to be quite high. I
would not recommend using fingprint logins on any sort of system you want to be
secure - only on systems where the novelty factor is of importance :)
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