[33514] in bugtraq
Re: Hacking USB Thumbdrives, Thumprint authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Aronson)
Mon Feb 9 12:23:51 2004
From: Dave Aronson <spamtrap.secfocus@dja.mailme.org>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:06:22 -0500
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On Wed February 4 2004 13:37, markus-1977@gmx.net 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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