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Biometrics: Fantastic Failure Point of the Future

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History of Biometrics

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Fingerprint used to prevent forgery2000 BC

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Fingerprints used to solve crimesAs early as 650 AD

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Fingerprint IdentificationMid 1800’s

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Voice Recognition1960s

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Retina/Iris Scan1980s

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Facial Recognition2000’s

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Touch ID2013

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What’s The Problem?

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500 million records2014

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78.8 million records2015

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21.5 million records2015

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Biometrics are more valuable than passwords over time

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Password lists drop in value quicklyEarly Yield

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Biometrics will increase in value over timeLong Haul

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Biometrics must be better protected than passwords

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Knowledge based entropy a.k.a. Private Biometrics

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Obfuscate the relationship to the biometricHash the link with a knowledge item

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Password vs Biometric ValueLong Haul

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Password Biometric

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Decentralized Biometric Stores

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Which brings us back to…

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Decentralized Biometric StoreMobile devices as secure stores on the periphery

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Questions?