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RE: Hacking USB Thumbdrives, Thumprint authentication Feb 04 2004 06:37PM
markus-1977 gmx net (3 replies)

Re: Hacking USB Thumbdrives, Thumprint authentication Feb 06 2004 03:06PM
Dave Aronson (spamtrap secfocus dja mailme org) (1 replies)

On Wed February 4 2004 13:37, markus-1977 (at) gmx (dot) net [email concealed] wrote:

> (to the best of my knowledge) there is no
> hash-function out there that will hash your fuzzy fingerprint to a
> constant value is it accepts and to something random if it rejects.

Law enforcement agencies use some kind of algorithm to convert
fingerprints to a numeric value, so that they can be easily compared.
This resulting value could of course be hashed. Question is, is this
something that (so far) a human must do, or is it automatable in real
time by a reasonably small and low-priced system?

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Re: Hacking USB Thumbdrives, Thumprint authentication Feb 09 2004 06:26PM
Eric Murray (ericm lne com)

Biometric systems security [WAS: Re: Hacking USB Thumbdrives, Thumprint authentication] Feb 06 2004 12:48PM
Gadi Evron (ge linuxbox org)

RE: Hacking USB Thumbdrives, Thumprint authentication Feb 06 2004 10:12AM
Navaneetharangan (navaneeth innsolutions com) (1 replies)

Re: Hacking USB Thumbdrives, Thumprint authentication Feb 10 2004 01:49PM
Eric 'MightyE' Stevens (mightye-removethis- mightye org)