Greg Broiles wrote:
At 01:44 PM 9/14/2001 -0400, Howie Goodell wrote:
These smart cards don't need to be connectable to your identity; just your body and a responsible party's signature. American Airlines and Lloyds put $1B behind my biometrics being one of an authorised class of pilots or plane cleaners. Who I am isn't necessary.
No, but what's going to sound more comforting to worshippers at the temple of the power trip:
1. Credentials without privacy violation, which chart a careful course between the risks of overidentification and the risks of overauthorization/overpermissiveness, a la Chaum -
or
2. A big centralized database/control center, where serious-looking men with guns and uniforms will sit in swivel chairs and look at computer screens 24x7, using zoom lenses and database queries to inspect every movement or deviation from what's considered normal?
The point we need to make is that you can be far *safer* with Chaumian anonymous credentials etc. How long would it take to persuade people to have their biometrics checked and compared with a central server and recorded forever -- even this week? The key point is to rely on a digital signature. The rest is incremental. Howie Goodell -- Howie Goodell hgoodell@cs.uml.edu Pr SW Eng, WearLogic Sc.D. Cand HCI Res Grp CS Dept U Massachussets Lowell http://people.ne.mediaone.net/goodell/howie Dying is soooo 20th-century! http://www.cryonics.org