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Subject: Re: [xcbf][Fwd:I-DACTION:draft-nagpal-biometric-digital-signature-00.txt]
Alessandro Triglia wrote: > > At 2002/05/16 16:01 +0100, John Larmouth wrote: > >This is quite interesting! He admits it is not possible yet! > > This proposal is very far from reality. The probability of getting two > identical biometric samples from the same person are very low, for any > biometric technique, No, I don't think so. For hand geometry, I think we could be close to doing what he wants, and possibly for fingerprints, where they count cusps and whorls etc. But for retina and iris stuff, I agree with you - we are nowhere near being able to do it. > OSS Nokalva's biometrics toolkit will support all the techniques of > encryption, digital enveloping, digital signing, and MAC-based > authentication that are defined in X9.84. My biggest problem with both X9.84 and the BIR is the failure to separate the payload from the biometric data. But that is a different discussion. But in summary, I said in my original: > >We should not waste time on this. And I think that still stands. John L
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