Re: Biometric Encryption: the solution for network intruders?

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 04/15/02 

From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:47:41 GMT

In article <a9dpji$2btpm$1@ID-66783.news.dfncis.de>, "Adrian Edmonds"
<egghead@suespammers.org> wrote:
>There is still a pin number to remember but most people can manage those
>four digits well enough. It's nearly impossible to mimic the voice, we track
>voice aging and head colds don't count.

Do you mean that a person with a head cold will still be recognised, or that a
person with a head cold will _not_ be recognised?

>One other solution we're working on is the perennial 'I've forgotten my
>password' problem, which ties up help desk resources and gets everybody hot
>and bothered. Semi automated and very hard to break into.

This reminds me that it's important to have a back-up to biometric solutions,
in the unlikely event that the biometric no longer becomes available. People
lose their voice (how does your software work on those buzzing devices that
you hold to your throat after losing your vocal cords?), fingers and arms get
amputated, eyes get gouged out, etc. Sure, these kind of accidents aren't
going to happen every day, but if your network administrator gets run over by
a train and loses his arm, or the sixty years of smoking finally get to him,
it'd be nice to know that the system could be recovered from a password hidden
in the safe.

Alun.
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