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
