Retailers Experiment With Biometric Payment article

2005-06-09 Thread Heyman, Michael
From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR20050 60802335_pf.html: You can always get a new Social Security number, but you certainly can't get a new thumbprint..., Lee [of EFF] said...Robinson, of BioPay, argues that a personal check written at a grocery

Re: Retailers Experiment With Biometric Payment article

2005-06-09 Thread Adam Shostack
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:17:59AM -0400, Heyman, Michael wrote: | From | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR20050 | 60802335_pf.html: | share its biometric data with government agencies, and | in fact, the full fingerprints are not stored in the | system.

Re: Retailers Experiment With Biometric Payment article

2005-06-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:02:20PM -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: Has anyone ever studied the reversability of these algorithms? It seems to me that you could make some plausible guesses and generate fingerprints from certain representations. I don't know how likely those guesses are to be