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Re:Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID by bcoates on Sunday September 22, 2013 @06:32PM (#6428351)
Looks like fingerprints have 30-40ish bits of entropy depending on how forgiving the device is, so unless they're doing some key stretching it should be practical to produce an image of a similar fingerprint by brute-forcing the hash with every biologically likely fingerprint.

http://lukenotricks.blogspot.com/2009/04/on-entropy-of-finge...

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