From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 95 12:57:06 PDT
To: Alan Olsen <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Florida Drivers Permits and a Hello
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At 22:57 8/28/95, Alan Olsen wrote:
>They would not have to include an entire thumbprint.  The actual code used
>to verify fingerprints is not very large.

This is true. While waiting for the local US Post Office clerk to process a
passport application, I browsed through their book of FBI's Most Wanted
(available at every Post Office, just ask for it). Each person's
fingerprints were specified with an alphanumeric code that took up less
than half a line.


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