Fuzzy Extractors: How to Generate Strong Keys from Biometrics and Other Noisy Data · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cs_0602007/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTFuzzy Extractors: How to Generate Strong Keys from Biometrics and Other Noisy Data — mentioned by nullchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050549urn:hackerpapers:mention:cs_0602007:46050549Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:45:10 GMT<p>&gt; Also, the privacy and the finding are in direct opposition to each-other, which isn’t always a comfortable system dynamic. ... or some sort of group key sharing Perhaps you might consider a pinsketch in the manner proposed for cryptographic biometric security. https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0602007 I contributed to a fast implementation of the underlying algorithim: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/minisketch With it two peers could compare their BSSID environments and learn ~nothing about each other unless they were nearly matching. I can see how one could use it for location based key agreement…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cs_0602007/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CR