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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Fingerprint private key
by
ensurance982
on 08/04/2015, 13:15:05 UTC
Hello,

I was wondering if there is any way for me to create a private key using only my fingerprint and a password. Do you guys know if there is already a website to do so ?

Thanks.

You could use it as a seed to generate a private key, yeah. The question is: Is the entropy high enough (most likely yes), is the function creating a seed from your characteristics safe (could be)? Oh and pay attention not to get your fingerprint stolen. Biometrics generally are pretty bad security tokens.