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HTC caught storing fingerprints AS WORLD-READABLE CLEARTEXT

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Re: Broken Implementation

I'm not sure this would work. How does the hash work? Fingerprints vary slightly even from one impression to the next because fingers are flexible and their water content varies with time. Your hash algorithm has somehow to ensure that the expected variations in a fingerprint result in the same hash each time, and this is going to be difficult. If the hash is structured in some way it is open to reverse engineering, and if it throws away enough information to allow varying prints to give the same hash it may be open to brute force.

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