Justin, Thanks for the information. I searched a little bit, and found valuable data...
The most interesting thing that I saw was a Diploma Thesis from Josef Hajas (2005) : https://dip.felk.cvut.cz/browse/pdfcache/hajasj1_2007dipl.pdf The title is : Integration of a biometric user authentication in unix-like systems. It was a very well made document, and, from what I've read, it's possible to make authentication (one-to-one) and identification (one-to- few) routines in a secure way. First, a personal case : In my gym, they have a fingerprint-based gate. The only think you have to do to get in is to put your finger on the reader, and wait a few moments. It then says a message like "Have a good day, Wladston!", with my photo. I notice other people using this system, and the picture always mach the faces :) Also, I doubt that my academy would use such system if there is any chance of collisions, considering this is the only control form, and they should have about 500~1k registered users (it's a big gym!) The pay-by-thouch system, however, asks you a localization code + finger (the localization code usually is the phone number) ... but maybe they just do it for acceleration ... I'm attaching a very interesting part of this work : "A fingerprint may contain on average between 75 and 175 minutiae points[53]. Only some twenty minutiae points are enough for identification [43]. Most of the advanced devices for storing fingerprints for later matching store only these several points. It is therefore not possible to produce a complete fingerprint from this stored information. If the attacker fails to find the key to how these points are chosen, he also fails to make a usable counterfeit of the recorded fingerprint from the existing fingerprint copy outside the reader." Please, take a read on the document, and tell me what you think of it .... -- Edgy should include 'bioapi' to support fingerprint readers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/54816 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
