As thousands of football fans entered Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida for Super Bowl 2001, each was digitally scanned and compared to a database of known malefactors. Learn more about the technology that was used without the knowledge of unsuspecting football fans and where it might be heading next. You'll find that this article focuses on the market saturation and maturation of fingerprint biometrics vendors. Fingerprint recognition and iris scanning could soon replace network passwords as standard security measures. These biometric technologies already exist, but unlike passwords, they aren't free.
Fingerprints are controversial.
Politically charged even. Check out this web site dedicated to eliminating government-sanctioned biometrics and social security number identification schemes. This isn't the most in-depth paper, but it does provide a general outline of this burgeoning technology. It starts by defining biometric encryption and describing the history of its evolution. The major types of biometric encryption techniques, along with their pros and cons, are examined followed by a sample listing of potential uses for the technology.