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Better Biometrics Thursday, July 03, 2008 - Roni Barr Home >> News >> Defense and Security   
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New personal identification verification (PIV) cards that offer improved protection from identity theft meet the standard accuracy criteria for federal identification cards according to researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). By fall, most federal employees and contractors will be using these newly approved PIV cards to "authenticate" their identity when seeking entrance to federal facilities.
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In recent tests, NIST researchers assessed the accuracy and security of this model that, if accepted for government use, would offer improved features. The first of which would allow the biometric data on the card to travel across a secure wireless network to eliminate insertion of the card into a reader; the second use is an alternative authentication technique called "match-on-card" in which the biometric data from the fingerprint scanner is sent to the PIV smart card for matching against the data on the processor chip embedded in the card. The advantage is that the stored data never leaves the card, meaning that if a card should get lost or stolen, the fingerprint template could not be copied.
TFOT recently covered a new type of technology that can identify distorted fingerprints, as well as the car fingerprint immobilizer which can recognize up to 10 users and an unlimited number of IDs for fleet management. In 2006 TFOT covered Fujitsu's Palm Vein Technology which protects against bank card thefts and is already used in Japan. More on the new biometric scanners can be found on this NIST paper (PDF). |
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