Comments on: Biometrics to the rescue http://bettergame.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/biometrics-to-the-rescue/ Welcome home. Let's talk games. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:48:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mopy http://bettergame.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/biometrics-to-the-rescue/#comment-264 Mopy Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:48:25 +0000 http://bettergame.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/biometrics-to-the-rescue/#comment-264 Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway ... nice blog to visit. cheers, Mopy. Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Mopy.

]]> By: Julian http://bettergame.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/biometrics-to-the-rescue/#comment-57 Julian Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:24:10 +0000 http://bettergame.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/biometrics-to-the-rescue/#comment-57 And hi to you right back. Grab a chair, get some coffee, stick around. Regarding passwords and thumbprints, yeah it's all 1's and 0's in the end. If you can steal one, you can steal the other. I suppose a possible solution would be to start encrypting both. I imagine even a simple 128-bit key (which is about the standard, or below the standard nowadays as I understand it) would be more trouble than the farmers would like to put up with. That's probably a good middle point between passwords in the wild and biometrics: encrypted passwords. It won't solve the the problem of them being stolen, but at least most farmers couldn't use them. I doubt they're gonna set up to crunch and crack the encryption on the passwords they collect. Although you never know. And hi to you right back. Grab a chair, get some coffee, stick around.

Regarding passwords and thumbprints, yeah it’s all 1’s and 0’s in the end. If you can steal one, you can steal the other. I suppose a possible solution would be to start encrypting both. I imagine even a simple 128-bit key (which is about the standard, or below the standard nowadays as I understand it) would be more trouble than the farmers would like to put up with.

That’s probably a good middle point between passwords in the wild and biometrics: encrypted passwords. It won’t solve the the problem of them being stolen, but at least most farmers couldn’t use them. I doubt they’re gonna set up to crunch and crack the encryption on the passwords they collect. Although you never know.

]]> By: Cameron Sorden http://bettergame.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/biometrics-to-the-rescue/#comment-56 Cameron Sorden Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:09:48 +0000 http://bettergame.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/biometrics-to-the-rescue/#comment-56 Convenience is king for most consumers. Rotating passwords is far too much of a hassle, since you need to do it for ALL your services (and none of them should be the same, ideally). So yeah, we do need a new solution to the problem as more people (and thus, more scammers) start to clue in that virtual assets DO have real value. Would biometrics really be more secure though? I feel like it's just a password in digital form that you can't change. Sure, it's more complicated to steal and spoof than a conventional password, but once you've got the data for someone's thumb-print, well, they're pretty much SOL, right? You can't get a new pattern burned on. That's why I'm skeptical of widespread use of biometrics. Hi, by the way! I found by way here by following your comment on Kill Ten Rats. You're on my blog roll now. :) Convenience is king for most consumers. Rotating passwords is far too much of a hassle, since you need to do it for ALL your services (and none of them should be the same, ideally). So yeah, we do need a new solution to the problem as more people (and thus, more scammers) start to clue in that virtual assets DO have real value.

Would biometrics really be more secure though? I feel like it’s just a password in digital form that you can’t change. Sure, it’s more complicated to steal and spoof than a conventional password, but once you’ve got the data for someone’s thumb-print, well, they’re pretty much SOL, right? You can’t get a new pattern burned on. That’s why I’m skeptical of widespread use of biometrics.

Hi, by the way! I found by way here by following your comment on Kill Ten Rats. You’re on my blog roll now. :)

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