Tag Archives: Identification

Using a Fake Hand to Defeat Hand-Vein Biometrics

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Nice work: One attraction of a vein based system over, say, a more traditional fingerprint system is that it may be typically harder for an attacker to learn how a user’s veins are positioned under their skin, rather than lifting a fingerprint from a held object or high quality photograph, for example. But with that said, Krissler and Albrecht first… Continue reading Using a Fake Hand to Defeat Hand-Vein Biometrics→

MD5 and SHA-1 Still Used in 2018

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Last week, the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence published a draft document — "SWGDE Position on the Use of MD5 and SHA1 Hash Algorithms in Digital and Multimedia Forensics" — where it accepts the use of MD5 and SHA-1 in digital forensics applications: While SWGDE promotes the adoption of SHA2 and SHA3 by vendors and practitioners, the MD5 and… Continue reading MD5 and SHA-1 Still Used in 2018→

Understanding ANSI/AAMVA encoded data (pdf417 data matrix) on back of NYS ID card

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I am developing an Android application for work which runs on a Zebra TC51 bar code scanner, which I have been playing around with.. I scanned my NYS drivers license and inspected the output this morning (sanitized output is be… Continue reading Understanding ANSI/AAMVA encoded data (pdf417 data matrix) on back of NYS ID card→

Identifying People by Metadata

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Interesting research: "You are your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users using Metadata Information," by Beatrice Perez, Mirco Musolesi, and Gianluca Stringhini. Abstract: Metadata are associated to most of the information we produce in our daily interactions and communication in the digital world. Yet, surprisingly, metadata are often still categorized as non-sensitive. Indeed, in the past, researchers and… Continue reading Identifying People by Metadata→