BioTrusT a Project of Working Group 6, Applied Biometric
Identification
Overview
BioTrusT is an interdisciplinary pilot
implemetation of applied biometric schemes in banking.
Manufacturers and system operators provide
jointly solutions which will comply with German data security requirements
for dealing with biometric identifiers. The project will analyse general
users acceptance. BioTrusT should foster meaningful innovation for secure
and trusted electronic commerce. A high degree of common tasks and scientific
research should result in general appliable results of biometric identification,
available to all companies and organizations interested in biometric identification.
The project significantly supports the safe use of digital signatures in
electronic commerce and therefore helps to implement the German digital
signature act (Art. 3 of the Information and Communication Services Act
- IuKDG).
Scientific and Technical Goals of the
Project
The implementation of biometric systems
in different operative environments is based on the following starting
considerations:
BioTrusT - Platform for Common Tasks
A common platform will be used as a base
for the implementation of applications, interfaces, a common personalization
station, scientific research and more.
It should include all biometric systems
and allows adaptions and enhancements during the course of the project.
BioTrusT – Robustness Test (Access Control)
This application of biometric systems
will be used internally only by operators.
It should test the robustness in professional
environments and should provide general usage experiences with specific
systems. Simultaniously it should analyze the acceptance of specific systems
with operators and it should enable operators staff to guide their customers
in a meaningful dialogue to the other applications.
At the same time common application interfaces
are to be defined and tested.
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BioTrusT – Security Test (Automated
Teller Machines, ATM)
This application of biometric identification
at ATMs and other self service terminals will be used to test biometrics
in a highly secure environment and to ananlyze specifically users‘ acceptance.
It is geared at providing a significantly
higher level of comfort. Initially, only operator’s staff will use it to
manage operator‘s risks, later on, banking customers will be included.
It will use an existing infrastructure and should provide reliable quantitive
analysis based on a reasonable users group. It is planned to be implemented
in different German regions.
BioTrusT - E-Commerce and E-Business
(Home Banking)
This applications means integration of
biometric identification into home banking applications and protocols (e.g.
HBCI) and will call for a new generation of bank smart cards to be tested.
It should pave the way for customer accepted mass deployment of biometric
identification.
The project is supported by S-Finanzgruppe and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
More information is available at www.biotrust.de
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