Re: Play-Doh 9, Finger-print scanners 1

[Pierre Vandevenne <pierre () datarescue com>]

Good Day,

These things are usually a joke.

http://www.puttyworld.com/thinputdeffi.html

That sounds a lot like what Tsutomu Matsumoto did a few years ago

http://cryptome.org/gummy.htm




Monday, December 12, 2005, 3:42:35 PM, you wrote:

RMS> IT <http://it.slashdot.org/> : Fingerprint Scanners Fooled By Play-Doh
RMS> Posted by ScuttleMonkey <http://slashdot.org/~ScuttleMonkey/>  on Monday
RMS> December 12, @03:35AM
RMS> from the homer-says-doh dept. 
RMS>  <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=172> Security 
RMS> * * Beatles-Beatles <http://george-harrison.info/>  writes to tell us
RMS> YubaNet is reporting that in recent tests by Stephanie C Schuckers, an
RMS> associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Clarkston
RMS> University, she has shown that, among other things, biometric security
RMS> measures were fooled 90% of
RMS> <http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_28878.shtml> the time by
RMS> simple attacks like Play-Doh molds. From the article: "Schuckers' biometric
RMS> research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of
RMS> Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. She is currently assessing
RMS> spoofing vulnerability in fingerprint scanners and designing methods to
RMS> correct for these as part of a $3.1 million interdisciplinary research
RMS> project funded through the NSF." 

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 Pierre                            mailto:pierre () datarescue com

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