1. A method of generating biometric data comprising: extracting feature data from a set of biometric data corresponding to a biometric sample; encoding the extracted feature data with a processor to create one or more enrollment templates of encoded features, said encoding including determining a plurality of features in the extracted feature data, determining at least a parameter associated with each of the plurality of features, and providing subset data corresponding to a plurality of overlapping subsets of the features, at least some of the overlapping subsets including fewer than all of the features within the set of data; and generating an enrollment string of symbols representing said encoded features with the processor.