Biometrics --- How to Put to Use and How Not at All?

Authors:
Andreas Pfitzmann
Affiliations:
Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany 01062
Venue:
TrustBus '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business
Year:
2008

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Abstract

After a short introduction to biometrics w.r.t. IT security, we derive conclusions on how biometrics should be put to use and how not at all. In particular, we show how to handle security problems of biometrics and how to handle security and privacy problems caused by biometrics in an appropriate way. The main conclusion is that biometrics should be used between human being and his/her personal devices only.