Researchers crack iris recognition
An international team of researchers has devised a method of reverse engineering code stored in biometric databases to fool iris recognition systems.
Iris recognition systems are currently deployed by corporations and law enforcement entities around the world, including at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport and Google's data centres.
Such systems typically scan individuals' irises to produce code that is then filed in a database and used for future matching. Professor Javier Galbally of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid told the Black Hat conference last week that his team had developed a genetic algorithm to reproduce images of individuals' irises by reverse engineering the database code.
