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whitepaper Biometric Technologies: Security, Legal, and Policy Implications2004-06-21 Heritage Foundation
  Advanced technology is a competitive advantage for the United States, and it must be used if the country is to win its war on terrorism. Biometric technologies - such as iris recognition, hand geometry, finger recognition, facial recognition, and voice recognition - have substantial potential to improve national security by providing a means to identify and verify people in many contexts.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Intrusion - Tampering, Authentication - Encryption		   
whitepaper Introduction to Iris Recognition for Personal Identification0000-00-00 University of Cambridge
  Iris recognition illustrates work in computer vision, pattern recognition, and the man-machine interface. The purpose is real-time, high confidence recognition of a person's identity by mathematical analysis of the random patterns that are visible within the iris of an eye from some distance. Because the iris is a protected internal organ whose random texture is stable throughout life, it can serve as a kind of living password that one need not remember but one always carries along. Because the randomness of iris patterns has very high dimensionality, recognition decisions are made with confidence levels high enough to support rapid and reliable exhaustive searches through national-sized databases.

Algorithms developed by John Daugman at Cambridge are today the basis for all iris recognition systems worldwide. In America and Japan, the main applications are entry control, ATMs, and Government programmes. In Britain, The Nationwide Building Society introduced iris recognition within its cash dispensing machines (in lieu of PIN numbers) in 1998. A new development at some airports is ticketless air travel, allowing passenger and baggage check-in and other security procedures based on the traveller's iris patterns. Beyond its use in financial transactions, iris recognition is forecast to play a role in a wide range of other applications in which a person's identity must be established or confirmed. These include passport control, electronic commerce, entitlements payments, premises entry, access to privileged information, authorizations, forensic and police applications, computer login, or any other transaction in which personal identification currently relies just on special possessions or secrets (keys, cards, documents, passwords, PINs).

(Intro links to original 1993 and 1994 work, and to more recent developments through 2000.)

Tags: Authentication - Encryption		   
whitepaper Surveillance: The Digital Revolution2004-04-01 IBM
  Today, video surveillance has become commonplace. Everyone from government agencies to sports venues has taken advantage of the added security they provide. IBM takes it into the digital age. Digital surveillance offers more efficient storage and retrieval methods, as well as advanced capabilities like motion and abandoned object detection. These systems can also be built on existing analog infrastructures—increasing cost effectiveness. Click to learn more.

Tags: LAN - WAN, Data Infrastructure, Internet and Web, Authentication - Encryption, Authentication - Encryption, Data Infrastructure, Intrusion - Tampering, Homeland Security, Homeland Security, Homeland Security, Homeland Security		   
whitepaper Smart Cards and Biometrics in a Privacy-Sensitive Secure Personal Identification System2002-05-01 Smart Card Alliance
  Both government and commercial organizations are implementing secure personal Identification (ID) systems to improve confidence in verifying the identity of individuals seeking access to physical or virtual locations. A secure personal ID system is designed to solve the fundamental problem of verifying individuals are who they claim to be. This verification is achieved using a recognized ID credential issued from a secure and effective identity confirmation process. A secure personal ID system design will include a complex set of decisions to select and put in place the appropriate policies and procedures, architecture, technology and staff to deliver the desired level of security.

Tags: Authentication - Encryption, Authentication - Encryption		   
whitepaper Password Security Guidelines0000-00-00 M-Tech Information Technology
  This document introduces the basic concepts of network authentication. In particular, it focuses on the use of user-IDs and passwords to verify the identity of users. Various strategies for selecting strong, hard-to-guess passwords are then discussed.

A number of technologies are available for user authentication. The most popular authentication systems are:
Secret passwords.
Cryptographic certificates.
Smart cards.
Biometric devices.

Tags: Authentication - Encryption, Authentication - Encryption