Ashara is a turn-key solution for cost effective and reliable and fully anonymous biometric identification. The biometric reference information is stored in a privacy compliant manner enabling secure and private deployment of Barcodes, Smart Cards or Database storage. Ashara comes with intuitive interfaces for registration and verification, it can be coupled all fingerprint scanners, and provides functionality for a private duplicate check. Either in a fully off-line mode or in a client-server setting, Ashara can be used for applications like POS terminals, Health ID cards, Financial transactions, Voter cards, Traveler cards, etc.