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Re: Levels of security according to the easiness to steel biometric data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ali, Saqib)
Wed Apr 16 11:04:22 2008
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:42:06 -0700
From: "Ali, Saqib" <docbook.xml@gmail.com>
To: danilo@pmf.ukim.edu.mk
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <555200.58888.qm@web50203.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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
<gligoroski@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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 =AD in the current issue of its
> club magazine Die Datenschleuder, the hackers have
> published the fingerprint of German Home Secretary,
> ...
> Link: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3Db29_1206968252
>
>
>
> QUESTION: Does anybody knows about the existence of a
> security research in area of grading the easiness to
> steel biometric data.
> 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.
>
>
> Such a scale can be useful in the design of secure
> protocols and secured information systems.
>
>
> Danilo Gligoroski!
>
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