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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Clayton)
Wed Apr 16 11:03:14 2008

Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:04:07 +0100
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: Richard Clayton <richard@highwayman.com>
In-Reply-To: <555200.58888.qm@web50203.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

In article <555200.58888.qm@web50203.mail.re2.yahoo.com>, Danilo
Gligoroski <gligoroski@yahoo.com> 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" then yes, but if you meant "iris" then no

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/afghan.html

-- 
richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin

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