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  The use of fingerprints for identification has been employed in law enforcement for about a century. A much broader application of fingerprints is for personal authentication, for instance to access a computer, a network, a bank-machine, a car, or a home. The topic of this chapter is fingerprint verification, where "verification" implies a user matching a fingerprint against a single fingerprint associated with the identity that the user claims. The following topics are covered: history, image processing methods, enrollment and verification procedures, system security considerations, recognition rate statistics, fingerprint capture devices, combination with other biometrics, and the future of fingerprint verification.