IP: more on fake fingerprints

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Mercer, John W" <MERCERJW@state.gov>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:29:36 -0400
To: "'farber@cis.upenn.edu'" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: RE: fake fingerprints

Dave,
 
This is a slight correction to the attached piece.  The T. Matsumoto work
was presented in Yokohama 18 October 2000 at the Counterfeit Protection
Japan Conference.  Major results of the paper were presented in Japanese in
the Technical report of IEICE, ISEC2000-45/IPSJ SIG Notes, 2000-CSEC-10-23,
July 25, 2000.
 
The cited reference (Optical Security and Counterfeit Deterrence Techniques
IV, Rudolf L. van Renesse, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE Vol 4677 (2002) San
Jose CA, pp 275-289) is a further refinement and extension of the October
2000 paper.  Both are impressive demonstrations of the vulnerability of
finger print systems to simulation.  The latter paper closes with this
declaration:  "We would like to stress that this study intends to encourage
the suppliers and users of fingerprint systems to reconsider security of
their systems, not to criticize libelously fingerprint systems for their
security, and not to compare their performance."
 
John Mercer       

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