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The Ultimate Synergy of Smartcards,
Biometrics and
Advanced Encryption
The BioSmart+ is the efficient combination of Smartcards (contact or
contactless), Biometric Verification and the higher security provided by
Public Key Cryptography to achieve highly accurate authentication of the
cardholder's identity. The marriage of the technologies provides for maximum system protection against both fraud and invasion of personal privacy.
The BioSmart+ is the most effective solution for a wide range of positive
personal identity applications, enhancing presently used basic systems
for access control, medical records, computerized timekeeping, passenger
ticketing, welfare payment systems, drivers licenses, security
and border control.
The
Ultimate Solution for Border Control
The currently discussed initiatives for
Border Control calling for countries to implement a visitor/identity system
requirement which includes fingerprints and “facial or eye recognition” have
created a public outcry mainly because of
A] The enormous cost (it does not
warrant the term ‘investment’) over alternative and better solutions, and the
time to implement under international accord.
B]
The public outrage at having their biometric data integrated with existing
police and other fingerprint databases of criminals and illegal residents.
The BioSmart+ provides a perfect alternative to this badly flawed visitor
identity system, with the advantages of
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No invasion of personal
privacy
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Highly accurate, overcoming
the problem that up to 18% of people do not have electronically verifiable
fingerprints.
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Avoid billions in
government expense on highly complex networks and databases.
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Faster clearance of
passengers and at border crossings.
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Major reduction in cost of
hardware and staff at airports, seaports, and border entries.
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Far better total security control
HOW
DOES IT WORK?
1. Cardholder
inserts their special smartcard into BioSmart+ Terminal. This tells our
FingerFoto™ camera module to “wake-up” and capture a virtual 3-dimensional image
of the cardholder’s two fingers (of either hand) and pass the image data to the
smartcard.
2. The
smartcard processes the image using its on-board engine with our proprietary
algorithms and compresses the data into a 20 byte template, which is immediately
encrypted and stored. The cardholder’s two finger data is NOT kept in the
Terminal and is NOT transmitted to any database or anywhere else --- the
person’s encrypted data is ONLY on the smartcard.
3. There
is nothing to “hack” or copy, no memory in the Terminal, no communications lines
to tap, no central database. If the card is lost or stolen it is totally useless
to another person.
4. The
cardholder can then go to a BioSmart+ Terminal anywhere in the world and insert
their card. The BioSmart+ Terminal captures the two finger data and passes it
onto the smartcard. The processor on the card is programmed to carry out the
“compare function” and confirm that the new template is the same as the one
stored on the smartcard. If it is, the “open” command is given to the Terminal’s
door or gate controller. Meanwhile, on the smartcard, the two templates are
combined (i.e., template up-dating) and the new template is immediately random
re-encrypted on the smartcard
IN SUMMARY:
There is no trace or track anywhere that can be compromised. The cardholder’s
template is never the same twice and in a different encrypted format between
each verification.
Because
there is no database of cardholders, there is zero need for using Identification
Mode (1 versus X). Because the BioSmart+ Terminals are all “standalone” with no
network or central database/data processing (i.e. zero infrastructure), the
initial cost and overhead costs are far below any other biometric system ---
hence our statement “THE
HIGHEST POSSIBLE SECURITY LEVEL AT THE LOWEST COST”.
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