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Pre-boot biometric authentication using fingerprints

Posted: 03 May 2000  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: veridicom  iic taipei 2000  rom bios  fingerprint authentication  interface design 

[Summary of tips] This paper discusses the first successful implementation of fingerprint authentication inside the ROM BIOS of a PC. Pre-boot fingerprint authentication offers a non-transferable security mechanism that prevents access to the computer hardware and its sensitive data by stopping the BIOS self-test process until the presence of a ......
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