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Microcap & Penny Stocks : IDTEK Smart-card fingerprint security -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: caly who wrote (4)	1/14/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: David	Respond to of 11

The one thing I don't want is solitary enrollment at an anonymous station, like any networked PC. Nothing is secure at that point, and the authentication is worthless. But if you are talking about a witnessed enrollment, the one-time cost to the user (in terms of time) is probably significant, no matter what the technology. And it may be necessary.

To: caly who wrote (4)	1/15/1999 11:10:00 AM
From: David	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11

One more thought . . . If you simply have a $6 (or whatever) smart card reader to read out data on a self-authenticating biometric smart card, you have rendered the biometrics meaningless. Anyone could have stolen the card and without an authentication challenge at the POS terminal, the biometric ID doesn't come into play at all. It's just another card, except it can be carrying value that can be entirely lost -- not just the $50 cap now provided by credit card companies. So you will need the same POS equipment for any biometric smart card -- a smart card reader AND a scanner. In short, whatever you get in convenience with a self-authenticating biometric card, you lose in security, so it fails to add the value you are looking for. I think this product is strategically flawed.