What is a fingerprint is compromised

Posted Nov 26, 2007 13:09 UTC (Mon) by dsd (guest, #49212)
In reply to: What is a fingerprint is compromised by hingo
Parent article: Fingerprint recognition using fprint

During the early days of biometrics, people hoped that fingerprints would form a super secure
authentication system. Today we have discovered that this is not the case due to reasons
mentioned by others.

However, fingerprint scanning is still interesting. Rather than rambling on here I'm going to
point you to something that I wrote for the fprint website:
http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Security_notes