Fredrik Lindberg wrote:
But that would sort of defeat the whole purpose of biometric
authentication and you could really just use public keys instead
which would be a lot faster and easier than scanning your finger
at each login. :)
Unless you locally encrypt your private key with information gathered by
the fingerprint reader, as a "password".
One can scan his finger only once, at first login, or when the system boots.
Passwords are still considered a bit more safe then a fingerprint reader
(as far as I know).
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