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Re: personal encryption? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Tue Jun 22 11:21:02 1999
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>
To: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
Cc: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>, cryptography@c2.net
Date: 22 Jun 1999 02:25:01 -0400
In-Reply-To: Dan Geer's message of "Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:43:09 -0400"
Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com> writes:
>> this does not lead to secret messages.
>>
>> this leads to the ultimate in biometrics.
Do you imply having a machine with PCR's for some unique string in the
authenticator's DNA? I see two problems. First, twins. Second, it's
possible to grow DNA from fingernail clippings, hair, etc. It would
be like habitually writing your password down on everything you
touched :-)
Marc
