Re: Levels of security according to the easiness to steel biometric data

2008-04-18 Thread Arshad Noor
A paper was presented at the NIST/OASIS-sponsored IDtrust conference in Gaithersburg, MD last month, that attempts to start quantifying how authentication technology can be graded based on their ability to resist attacks. The paper - Identity Protection Factor (IPF) - and all others from the

Re: Levels of security according to the easiness to steel biometric data

2008-04-16 Thread Philipp Gühring
Hi, QUESTION: Does anybody knows about the existence of a security research in area of grading the easiness to steel biometric data. There are several relevant threats: * Accidental leaking the biometric data (colour-photos for face, fingerprints on glasses for fingers, public documents for

Re: Levels of security according to the easiness to steel biometric data

2008-04-16 Thread Richard Clayton
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Danilo Gligoroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes For example, I guess that stealing information of someone's face is easier than stealing information about someone's fingerprints, but stealing information about someone's retina would be much harder. if you meant retina

Re: Levels of security according to the easiness to steel biometric data

2008-04-16 Thread Ali, Saqib
I believe ISC2 (https://www.isc2.org/ ) did some testing and published their findings. Maybe someone from ISC2 on this list can give you the exact reference to that material. saqib http://doctrina.wordpress.com/ On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Danilo Gligoroski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

Levels of security according to the easiness to steel biometric data

2008-04-02 Thread Danilo Gligoroski
Hi, Probably you have heard about this: CCC publishes fingerprints of German Home Secretary Date: 31 March 2008 Source: Heise.de In a protest against the use of biometric data, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has taken a step that will raise a few eyebrows ­ in the current issue of its club