Levels of security according to the easiness to steel biometric data

[Danilo Gligoroski]

Hi,


Probably you have heard about this:

CCC publishes fingerprints of German Home Secretary
Date: 31 March 2008
Source: Heise.de

In a protest against the use of biometric data, the
Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has taken a step that will
raise a few eyebrows ­ in the current issue of its
club magazine Die Datenschleuder, the hackers have
published the fingerprint of German Home Secretary,
...
Link: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b29_1206968252



QUESTION: Does anybody knows about the existence of a
security research in area of grading the easiness to
steel biometric data.
For example, I guess that stealing information of
someone's "face" is easier than stealing information
about someone's "fingerprints",
but stealing information about someone's "retina"
would be much harder.


Such a scale can be useful in the design of secure
protocols and secured information systems.


Danilo Gligoroski!

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