Re: Biometric Data not in DOD Certificate [was; Re: Certificate profile for Biometrics information.]

[Tony Bartoletti <azb@xxxxxxxx>]

At 02:54 PM 11/5/2002 -0500, Stephen Kent wrote:
> At 4:33 PM -0800 11/4/02, Tony Bartoletti wrote:
> > > Note that when we discussed inclusion of biometric data in a cert in the 
> > > Qualified Certificate RFC, we intentionally limited it to data for 
> > > verification by a human being, e.g., a photograph, not a fingerprint, 
> > > voiceprint, etc.
> >
> > Hmmm.  Well, most humans have a hard time reading voiceprints, and even 
> > fingerprints ... but I don't think machines will have a hard time reading 
> > photographs, certainly not for long.
> >
> > Cheers!  ____tony____
>
> Tony,
>
> The focus is on the complementary set, i.e., we wanted to reject 
> biometrics that only machines could process.
>
> Steve

Ok.  Got it.  That makes sense.

You want to ENABLE "human-in-the-loop" verification, as
opposed to DISABLE "no-human-in-the-loop" verification.

Cheers!  ____tony____