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Multifactor Authentication

2. State-of-the-Art and Potential MFA Sources

2.1.7. Vein Recognition

The advances in fingerprint scanners offer an opportunity to collect the vein picture of the finger as well. More complicated devices utilize palm print recognition to acquire and store the shape/movement of the entire hand. At the current stage of development, vein biometrics are still vulnerable to spoofing attacks.