News Summary: College tests fingerprint technology
by The Associated Press
Feb 22, 2013 | 510 views | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend | print
FINGERPRINT TEST: Two shops on the School of Mines and Technology in South Dakota are performing one of the world's first experiments in biocryptology — a mix of biometrics (using physical traits for identification) and cryptology (the study of encoding private information).

HOW IT WORKS: Students at the Rapid City school can buy a bag of potato chips with a machine that non-intrusively detects their pulse to make sure the transaction is legitimate.

THE PURPOSE: Researchers figure their technology would provide a critical safeguard against a morbid scenario sometimes found in spy movies in which a thief removes someone else's finger to fool the scanner.
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