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To: EPS who wrote (25309)2/6/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella  Read Replies (2) of 42771
 
Digital Me and fingerprints

There are no 100,000 fingerprint codes to access, it's all done locally.

My understanding of the optimal use of a smartcard with fingerprint recognition would be as a local access enabler. The smarts to recognize the fingerprint would be built into the card. If the owner of the card squeezed it then the card would issue an digital identity code to the network. If someone else squeezes it, nothing gets issued.

The digital identity code that gets issued and transmited over the network is not the fingerprint.

Here is a simple analogy:

smartcard with fingerprint id --- the same thing as those computer keys that you used to find used to secure physical access to the computer.

smartcard issued digital identity code --- equivalent to today's login name but encrypted.

user verification --- equivalent to today's password but with a digital identity vault you use one such code for many sites.
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