Fooling A Fingerprint Scanner

Creating an artificial finger

 

Fingerprint recognition is based on the fact that every human being has a unique pattern of ridges and valleys on their fingertips. The scanner makes a copy of your fingerprint and compares its characteristics to the ones stored beforehand. These characteristics are measured based on special points (such as branches and loops) on a print. In figure 1.1 can be seen some of these special points. The scanner uses these points as coordinates to define other branches, loops, beginning of lines, number of lines etc.

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