Jun

27

Faking a fingerprint (Part 2)

Category: Biometrics, How-to, Security | 5 Comments

In my previous post I have described the simple way of faking a finger for an optical fingerprint sensor.
The second experiment demonstrated the high identification capabilities of optical fingerprint capturing devices together with their absolute lack of discrimination of fake “fingers”.
During the study we managed to get the fingerprint image that was accepted by an [...]