ThirdFactor | Match-on-card close says NIST

Monday, July 21, 2008

Biometrics pass speed and security tests, accuracy not quite there

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is continuing its march towards approving an ID card with a stored fingerprint that can be quickly authenticated without the data on the card ever leaving. The match-on-card fingerprint trials show that existing technology will work, although accuracy of the comparison isn’t quite up to NIST standards yet.

According to HSPD-12, federal employees and contractors must migrate to federally-approved personal identity verification (PIV) cards to authenticate their identity when seeking entrance to federal facilities. NIST’s 2006 standard to implement this requirement states that each identity card must store the user’s digital fingerprint that will be compared against the person’s actual fingerprint when entering a facility.

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NIST tackling PIV, mobile ID

Numerous challenges to porting ID to handsets

Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications

U.S. government smart card officials want some way to either use the PIV on mobile devices or have the mobile itself be used as the credential. If there was one item missing from the first draft of FIPS 201-2 it was that, officials have bemoaned.

Smart ID partners with Cross Match and get certified for UID program

Smart Identity Devices, a developer of smart cards, biometric solutions and various information technology, has announced that with its partner Cross Match Technologies the two have been certified as a supplier of biometric devices for use in India’s Unique Identification (UID) program.

NIST seeks proposals for NSTIC pilots

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a competition to award a approximately $10 million for pilot projects to accelerate progress toward improved systems for interoperable, trusted online credentials that go beyond simple user IDs and passwords.

NIST adds new biometric mode standards

The National Institute for Standards and Technology published a revised biometric standard that expands the type and amount of information that forensic scientists can share across their international networks to identify victims or solve crimes. Biometric data is a digital or analog representation of physical attributes that can be used to uniquely identify us.

DigitalPersona's Pro Enterprise enables "mix and match" authentication

DigitalPersona released a new version of its Pro Enterprise authentication device. It now contains the ability to support a number of new authentication credentials, enabling organizations to mix and match the ways in which employees securely identify themselves to Microsoft Windows and other applications.

NIST seeks proposals for Web-enabled biometric device

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants to see a biometric scanning device that has Web-enabled communication and control that’s built on a publicly-available specification, reports Bank Info Security. To that end, it’s looking for proposals for such a device.

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