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But let's admit that there's no such thing as a secret, really, and it's more about how difficult a thing is to reproduce or reverse engineer. I mean, everythi
by sunchild 15y ago
But let's admit that there's no such thing as a secret, really, and it's more about how difficult a thing is to reproduce or reverse engineer. I mean, everything about security is just a big game of "hide the ball" and the question is how many hoops one must jump through to find the ball.
- ars 15y agoOf course there are secrets. What you are trying to say is that system will let you do many attempts till you guess the secret. But with biometrics there are no guesses - you know exactly what it should look like. There is difficulty in implementation certainly, but a basic principle of security is that each increment of difficulty in the securer (like a longer password) should increase the difficulty of the attacker by an order of magnitude. Biometrics does not have this properly.
- sunchild 15y agoThanks for taking the time to respond here and elsewhere. You make some really interesting points, and I understand this topic much better now.