Fingerprints are not the best and they are low on the social acceptance scale (People don't like them cause they identify fingerprinting with law enforcement). Hand geometry is very good and hard to fake, unless like mentioned earlier someone wants in bad enough to take someone's hand off. Then you have a butcher and not really a data thief to worry about.
Hand geometry is quick, very reliable (low CER) and most people don't have too much of a problem with it. I use one daily and it is pretty quick and painless. Nick Nero, CISSP -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ktyler@;nautilus-ins.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:05 PM To: Felix Cuello Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Biometric question Well it depends, how desperate somebody wants to get into the computer room, e.g would they be willing to cut off your hand or pull out your eyeball. I would think that finger prints would be the best. It is considerably cheaper then a retinal scanning equipment. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Felix Cuello) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: 11/06/2002 02:27 Subject: Biometric question PM Hello list! I will work in a project where phisical security will be based on biometrics, in fact only will be based on fingerprints biometric. How secure are fingerprints?, what biometric are more secure? (voice, eye, ??? what else). I'm not a security expert :-) Thanks a lot, Felix [my english is bad... please sorry :-)] -- Felix Cuello [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qodiga/its Av.Santa Fe 882 P.13 Of. "E" C.P. ABP1059C Tel.: (54) 011 - 4312-1698 Buenos Aires - Argentina