Fingerprints (was: Re: biometrics)

[Rick Smith at Secure Computing]

At 02:46 PM 1/28/2002, ji at research.att.com wrote:

>The process took about 20-30 minutes;

Have you been fingerprinted before? Did it take that long in that case? In 
my own experience, it only takes a few minutes to be fingerprinted on a 
standard card and, in theory, they should be able to build a database from 
high-res fingerprint card images. Some small percentage of the population 
has prints that are unusually hard to read. It might be time consuming to 
put such a person's prints onto a card.

Or perhaps it takes 20 minutes of ablutions and purifications to copy a 
fingerprint card, so they figure they might as well make the subject wait, 
too.


Rick.
smith at securecomputing.com            roseville, minnesota
"Authentication" in bookstores http://www.visi.com/crypto/




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