2. The biometric authentication system of claim 1 , wherein the biometric verification system is configured to search the sorted similarity scores included in the biometric data using the computed particular similarity score by searching the sorted similarity scores in a manner that leverages knowledge of how the similarity scores included in the biometric data are sorted.
2. The biometric authentication system of claim 1 , wherein the biometric verification system is configured to search the sorted similarity scores included in the biometric data using the computed particular similarity score by searching the sorted similarity scores in a manner that leverages knowledge of how the similarity scores included in the biometric data are sorted. 3. The biometric authentication system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric verification system is configured to search the sorted similarity scores in a manner that leverages knowledge of how the similarity scores included in the biometric data are sorted by performing a binary search of the sorted similarity scores using the computed particular similarity score.