Talk:Fingerprint recognition

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I am a fourth year student at the University of Virginia. I am majoring in Computer Engineering and minoring in Business Administration. Relevant job experience includes working at Privaris, Inc., a biometric security company based in Charlottesville, VA. I am currently working on a thesis titled "Replacing Conventional Security Measures with Biometric Systems: A Cost-Benefit Analysis", and discovered that there is very limited information relating to biometric authentication on Wikipedia. This article could definitely be expanded as it is currently only an overview of this topic. It would be nice to have expert input on the details of fingerprint sensors as well as matching algorithms.

{np}Nima Pirzadeh 05:05, 14 December 2005 (UTC){/np)

You're... you're using _WIKIPEDIA_ to research your thesis? 72.40.101.236 00:43, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can fingerprint authentication be used to encryt data ?

As i understand it, currently fingerprint authentication can only be used to match a trusted/known print with the one read from the device and then act accordingly. What i want to know is, is it possible to obtain a key suitable for encyption from a finger print scan ? Without the ability to derive a key fron a scan, wouldn't it be useless for protecting data ( except a minor advantage by security through obscurity provided by the OS / login program ) ? --2mcm^Gespräch 05:55, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Worthless references

I'm sure the referenced lectures at the bottom of the page are quality, but you must log in as a University of Virginia student to have access to them. Thus for 99.9999% of readers, these are worthless. Could the author of the text that cites them obtain non-licensed (w/permission) versions of the lectures to post instead? I'm sure your professor would be happy to provide them. Jwigton 19:16, 30 January 2007 (UTC)