Chaos Computer Clubs Breaks Iris Recognition System of the Samsung Galaxy S8
Based on the write-up, Samsung has lower quality Iris recognition than could be written by an undergrad in a few hours. I say that, having done so.<p>Most obviously, the system should not tolerate a constant-size pupil, ever. The pupil has micro-dilations around twice per second, and your system is really terrible if you don't verify that changing diameter.<p>Also, multi-spectral is a pretty good test, though I don't know enough about the capabilities of the S8 camera to know if that's feasible (shouldn't be that hard.) Capturing the patterns of the iris at 500, 800, and 1200nm results in three templates that are quite different from another.<p>CCC were able to do this for about the cost of a S8. I would say this is one of the rare situations where defeating the attack would have been even cheaper. It's that simple a programming exercise.