We have had a run on the last three months on consultancy gigs linking last year's generation of finger reader sensors with TPM enforcement modules. Things in the embedded/passport TPM world obviously hit critical mass, at several points - across the world's usual manufacturers.
If any of the smaller manufacturing houses doing innovative sensor or wireless (magnetic/RF) work want help, here, let me know: we be happy to ensure the playing field is level! The key is to have the finger factor control the _pre-boot_ phase of windows, which is a hard problem to solve in bios/acpi/windows interaction. While we don't have much know-how in the linux world's equivalent, we'd be happy to supply what we do know from the windows/i386 motherboard world, to suitable open system developer groups building focusing on TPM products. This is a bit off topic, as TPM/finger interaction operates a bit differently to the way that javacard and bioAPI stuff work. The TPM world assumes bios and kernel driver involvement, whereas java/musclecards enhanced with the javacard forum's simplistic bio package have (traditionally had) no knowledge of the motherboard-based trust systems. Peter. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:muscle- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Barnett > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:58 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Muscle] Fingerprint matching on JCOP31bio > > > > But, all biometric systems are insecure. > > If used as the single factor of authentication, then perhaps. > But if you require PIN, biometrics, AND the card to authenticate - this is > three factor authentication, and stronger than PIN+card. > > Some systems do "match on card" as well. If the biometrics unlocked the > card and keys, that also provides security. I think some biometrics that > use match-on-card have readers that return what is requested, so the > biometrics are not re-playable. > > > >At the moment biometric is only a toy > > > Some are toys, and none are perfect, I agree. > > >and it is easy to forge fingerprint > > Some companies use techniques to defeat simple techniques as you describe, > such as measuring characteristies beneath the surface of the skin. > > > I'm not sure anyone has defeated iris scanning, as these systems are > suppose to understand how the pupil dialates under different light > conditions. > > _______________________________________________ > Muscle mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
