[Dailydave] Fingerprint biometrics attack paper...

[Adam Shostack]

They steal /etc/shadow and call the library.  Most biometrics give a
matching score because you can tune the false positive/false negative
acceptable rates.

Adam

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 03:32:29PM -0400, dave aitel wrote:
| http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.10.7168&rep=rep1&type=pdf
| 
| I want everyone to click on this paper and then maybe help explain it to
| me! From what I understand they got a fingerprint reader to tell them
| how hot/cold they were to an acceptable fingerprint. So they they modify
| a fingerprint to get closer and closer until it matches.
| 
| DOES THAT EVER HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE? I'm so confused at what security
| system gives you a "hot/cold" value so you can use this algorithm. Could
| this paper be summed up to say in one sentence "Obviously if you give a
| matching score from your biometric, you can use a model of that
| biometric to retrieve the raw data with enough tries?"
| 
| -dave
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