From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 23 4:49:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dazed.slacker.com (dazed.slacker.com [64.81.115.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D53437B71E for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 04:49:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nugget@dazed.slacker.com) Received: (qmail 30060 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Mar 2001 12:49:08 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 06:49:08 -0600 From: David McNett To: Michael Aronsen Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Fingerprint authentication? Message-ID: <20010323064908.A28521@dazed.slacker.com> References: <9164771DDCABD3118333005004E9446E43265B@mother.netcentralen.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AqsLC8rIMeq19msA" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <9164771DDCABD3118333005004E9446E43265B@mother.netcentralen.dk>; from mar@netcentralen.dk on Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:28:20AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 23-Mar-2001, Michael Aronsen wrote: > Has anyone been working on or know of any work being done on getting any > fingerprint gadgets working in FreeBSD? This is mostly off-topic, but I wanted to take the opportunity to point out an excellent treatment of the downsides of biometrics (fingerprint gadgets being the most popular such device these days) and concerns that you should be aware of if you're considering adopting biometrics for authentication in your environment. Inside Risks 110, Communications of the ACM, vol 42, n 8, Aug 1999 "Biometrics: Uses and Abuses" by Bruce Schneier http://www.counterpane.com/insiderisks1.html --=20 ________________________________________________________________________ |David McNett |To ensure privacy and data integrity this message has| |nugget@slacker.com|been encrypted using dual rounds of ROT-13 encryption| |Austin, TX USA |Please encrypt all important correspondence with PGP!| --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://members.slacker.com/~nugget/ iD8DBQE6u0ZEs3nEpeQ8X8MRAlasAJ0akSrs+WCgoyKj0rqZ+m86jEYNngCgpJEq EpptpLSrk46JD2fJvmJBEoc= =WVqD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AqsLC8rIMeq19msA-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message