Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:27:57AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> Current fingerprint readers have been shown to be very unreliable. Both
> false-positives and false-negatives are big problems.
and normally they cant be used over untrusted channels/terminals, since they work with
a shared secret. Only a few can avoid replay attacks, and those are even
more vulnerable to false positives.
Greetings
Bernd
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