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High-Security Biometric Access Mesh

Design a biometric authentication service for high-security facilities worldwide. The system must verify identities via facial/iris scans against a database of 10 million employees in under 200ms. It must function even if the local facility loses connection to the central cloud, and ensure biometric data is never stored in plaintext.

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edge-heavy architecturesecuritylow-latency

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