AN ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION SYSTEM INCLUDING A FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION ENCODING

An apparatus and process of authorizing an electronic transaction system includes a computer located at the site of a transaction, a conversion module for enabling connection between the computer located at the site of the transaction and the conversion module to authorize the transaction, and a connection between the conversion module and the computer at the site of the transaction. The system uses fingerprint input data panel for obtaining fingerprint input data from a finger impressed on the fingerprint input data panel and converts the fingerprint input data to characteristic fingerprint points including minutiae. These characteristic fingerprint points including minutiae are used in conjunction with at least one code at the conversion module to encode messages sent across the system.