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To: R. Jaynes who wrote (12496)2/19/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: David  Respond to of 26039
 
Even Microsoft is going to a public key/private key (PKI) environment:

cnn.com

"[I]f information technology managers want to take advantage of the reasons companies want to buy in to Windows 2000, such as public-key security and the new directory, then they will have to change those
applications."

This will do a lot to help create the infrastructure for biometric authentication, in particular the F3 approach where the authentication occurs locally and a verification message ("there is a match") is sent to a remote location -- protected by the PKI system en route.