Biometric authentication refers to technologies that measure and analyze human physical and behavioral characteristics for authentication purposes. Examples include fingerprints, eye retinas and irises, facial patterns and hand measurements.

Fingerprints provide one of the oldest and most accepted forms of personal verification; no two fingerprints ever have been found to be the same. The use of fingerprints is accurate, reliable, convenient and unobtrusive.

Bioman uses a minutiae-based matching technique. Minutiae points occur at fingerprint ridge bifurcations and ridge endings. The minutiae are then assigned mathematical values to create a fingerprint template. The template is encrypted and stored to be used in future live comparisons. No fingerprint other than the one used to create the template will make a perfect match.

During enrollment, the minutiae points are assigned values that are encrypted to create a fingerprint template. The encrypted template is meaningless until the corresponding live biometric is available for comparison.

No. Your fingerprint template is encrypted prior to being transmitted or stored. Without your matching live fingerprint, the fingerprint template is worthless. The encrypted fingerprint template cannot be used to recreate a meaningful fingerprint image.