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To: ToySoldier who wrote (34699)	11/12/2000 11:12:05 PM
From: David	Respond to of 42771

Toy, the biometric providers are set up for doing the match off-client, so you aren't branding your computer with one fingerprint. Anyone on the network can get his claimed ID checked against a file in a bank of templates on a server. That will be the most common solution. You can architect others, of course, and one day we may be carrying around biometrically-protected smart cards. They probably would have the highest degree of security, with the reference template encoded on the card, acting as a lock for information and value that only your finger can open.