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Smart Card Alliance Releases New Smart Cards and Biometrics White Paper

Overview Combining smart card and biometric technologies is one of the best ways to assure information and physical security, according to a new Smart Card Alliance white paper released today. "Smart Cards and Biometrics in Privacy-Sensitive Secure Personal Identification Systems" outlines how smart cards and biometrics enhance security, privacy, performance and return on investment in secure identification (ID) systems. This white paper describes how the two technologies add up to one very secure solution for ID systems.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2002	Downloads	118
Format	White Papers
Topics	Biometrics, Smart Cards

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