This may be useful to those on this list who are in the DC Metro area
(though valuable for all, not logistically achievable).....
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Workshop on Biometrics and E-Authentication Over Open Networks
Dates: March 30-31, 2005
Place: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
The objective of this two-day workshop is to determine how biometrics can be
used for remote e-authentication over open networks by providing equivalent
authentication assurance to conventional secret-based mechanisms defined in
NIST Special Publication 800-63, ?Electronic Authentication Guideline? for
each of four authentication levels defined in Office of Management and
Budget Memorandum (OMB M-04-04):
Through expert talks, panel discussions and breakout sessions, the Workshop
will address these essential questions:
§ How can Federal agencies and other organizations use biometrics to
authenticate
unsupervised remote claimants whose computers they do not manage or
control?
§ How do we compare the authentication assurance provided by
unsupervised biometric
methods to the conventional methods now defined in SP 800-63?
§ In what way could biometrics be appropriately used for these four
authentication levels?
§ What constraints/ protections need to be in place to use
biometrics in a secure solution?
Topics: User requirements, existing biometric solutions to meet these
technical requirements, authentication threats and countermeasures,
biometrics and privacy, data integrity and confidentiality, end-to-end
security mechanisms, security features of biometric interfaces, ?strengths?
and ?weaknesses? common to other authentication methods; existing or
required biometric standards, academic research efforts and industry?s
state-of-the art.
Sponsors: NIST; National Security Agency; Biometric Consortium; DoD
Biometrics Management Office; Department of Homeland Security; General
Services Administration?s Office of Governmentwide Policy; National
Institute of Justice; and the National Biometric Security Project.
Technical contact: Fernando Podio, 301/975-2947, fernando.podio@nist.gov
General Information contact: Magdalena Benitez, 301-975-6182,
magdalena.benitez@nist.gov
Website: http://www.nist.gov/biom-eauth
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