Hi,

On Monday 07 December 2009 13:02:29 Gustavo Chaín Dumit wrote:
> El Sat, 5 Dec 2009 17:42:44 +0530
> 
> Sarath Lakshman <[email protected]> escribió:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi !
> 
> > I am trying to implement fingerprint based fileprotection.
> > I need to generate a unique key for a fingerprint scan. So that I can
> > use that key for encryption.
> 
> You can use a database to store [fingerprint|unique key]
> That way, when finger match against fingerprint stored on DB, you will
> get the unique key.
> 

this way the database would have to be encrypted and the matching application 
would have to be "trusted" in the way that it knows the key to decode the 
database (without user intervention, that means hardcoded key) and then do the 
matching/retrieving the file decryption key

as long as you are OK with hardcoding decryption keys into the app this is a 
correct solution, but it is not as safe as one could think

Pavel
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