Banking under Enduring Power of Attorney

Florian Weimer ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:21:49 +0200


* Ian Batten:

> On 9 Apr 2009, at 11:39, Nicholas Bohm wrote:
>>
>> Do you have any details of the claimed error rates?
>
> It's the Fujitsu PalmSecure technology (we should eat our own
> dogfood), integrated into a lock system compatible with the pre- 
> existing equipment we have.
>
>> Internal research by Fujitsu resulted in a false acceptance rate of
>> less than 0.00007% and a false rejection rate of only 0.00004%.
>> False acceptance rate is a rate at which someone other than the
>> actual person is falsely recognized. False rejection rate is a rate
>> at which the actual person is not recognized accurately.

How do you conduct such tests?  Deploy it and count?  Somehow I can't
imagine hundreds of people waving at detectors in a lab, over a period
of several weeks.