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  • A use case for StudentPicture

    Looks to me like this would make for a good case for interoperability with StudentPicture. Imagine a new student walking into a school and the security system being able to be told that they are a new student as soon as they register, along with a corresponding snapshot from the webcam at the registration...
    Posted to sifbits by Andrew Elmhorst on 11-02-2007
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  • Watch out! The lunch lady may fingerprint you.

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/10/26/school.biometrics.ap/index.html How long before the Fingerprint SIF object is introduced? One question might be: Is biometric signature information really interoperable? Probably only if two different applications in the zone were using the same hardware. I think it...
    Posted to sifbits by Andrew Elmhorst on 11-01-2006
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  • SIF Security, Part 2

    In my last post , I discussed how SIF Security is based on two layers, Encryption and Authentication. We examined how the Authentication layer is based on X.509 certificates, which we compared to photo IDs for ease of discussion. The conclusion we came to in the end was that SIF Authentication, based...
    Posted to sifbits by Andrew Elmhorst on 09-05-2005
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  • SIF Security, Part 1

    The SIF 1.5r1 specification specifies a security model that has two layers: Encryption and Authentication. Encryption is supported by the use of standard HTTPS, which provides up to 128-bit encryption of the transport stream, very similar to the encryption standard used for many other secure transactions...
    Posted to sifbits by Andrew Elmhorst on 09-05-2005
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