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From what I know about biometrics they use heuristics to authenticate, whereas a key-secret-salt tuple is deterministic. That alone makes me not want to use the
by jackcosgrove 11y ago
From what I know about biometrics they use heuristics to authenticate, whereas a key-secret-salt tuple is deterministic. That alone makes me not want to use them.
- therobot24 11y agoAs someone who completed their PhD in biometrics, they do not use heuristics to authenticate. Though that terminology is very broad. There's usually a match score threshold which is a heuristic based on some measured false acceptance rate, but with regards to determining the actual match score - it's often much more complex than a few heuristics.