Costs set to rule out register of fingerprints

[James Davis]

Ian Batten wrote:

> If my attack was compromising a genuine key, are you prepared to stomach 
> invalidating thousands, perhaps millions of already-issued passports?

I didn't think it was a particularly great idea, just a means of 
checking without a central register. I guess if there were no checks 
then there's a chance that people would distrust the data, whereas any 
checks would lead people to think that the checks were infallible.

James

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