Peat, Am 11.09.2013 17:42, schrieb Peat Bakke:
Are there any reasons why fingerprint data couldn't be treated with the same concern as passwords? That is, subject to a one-way hash before being stored, transmitted in signed payloads, etc?
my guess is that fingerprint scanners don't produce the exact same output every time a finger is scanned (similar to what an image scanner might see). Hash functions should produce completely different output if only a single bit is changed, making comparison with a stored value at least a very hard problem if not impossible.
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