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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