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Re: Secure voice?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Jul 7 10:36:05 2008
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Allen <netsecurity@sound-by-design.com>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:57:10 +0200
In-Reply-To: <486EAC6B.6020200@sound-by-design.com> (Allen's message of "Fri,
04 Jul 2008 16:04:11 -0700")
* Allen:
> Interesting tidbit:
>
> http://www.epaynews.com/index.cgi?survey=&ref=browse&f=view&id=121516308313743148197&block=
>
> "Nick Ogden, a Briton who launched one of the world's first e-commerce
> processors in 1994, has developed a system for voice-signed financial
> transactions. The Voice Transact platform was developed by Ogden's
> Voice Commerce Group in partnership with U.S. speech software firm
> Nuance Communications."
Looks a bit fishy because Nuance Communications hasn't issued a similar
press release about their cooperation. There's also a total lack of
technical content.
And calling voice recordings "biometrics" is a bit of a stretch--you
could ask your customer about color preferences and label it
"biometrics", too.
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