Biometrics and smart cards combine to offer high security

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986 · Nucl. Mater. Manage. Annu. Meet. Proc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5093738

Seidman, S

This paper discusses the Smart Card a plastic credit card sized package with an embedded computer chip which encompasses a level of technical sophistication which makes it virtually impossible to counterfeit. The question of legitimacy of the person using the Card for physical, computer, or network access can be answered by storing a biometric template of the authorized user in the Smart Card's unalterable memory. The bimetric template can be based upon a retina print, a hand print, a finger print, a wrist-vein print, a voice print, or pseudo-biometrics, such as signature dynamics, gait dynamics or keyboard typing patterns. These Cards will function only when they are being used by the authorized individuals to whom they are issued.

• Research Organization: Smart Card Reports, Mountain View, CA
• OSTI ID: 5093738
• Report Number(s): CONF-860654-; TRN: 86-036204
• Journal Information: Nucl. Mater. Manage. Annu. Meet. Proc.; (United States), Vol. 15; Conference: 27. annual meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, New Orleans, LA, USA, 22 Jun 1986
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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