Exhibit 5.1

July 26, 2002

Securities and Exchange Commission
Judiciary Plaza
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20549

Re:  SAFLINK Corporation Registration Statement on Form S-2

Ladies and Gentlemen:

As legal counsel for SAFLINK Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), we are rendering this opinion in connection with the registration on
Form S-2 (the "Registration Statement") under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, of 7,703,116 shares of common stock issuable by the Company upon the
exercise of certain warrants described in the Registration Statement (the
"Warrant Shares") and 29,259,194 shares of common stock, including the Warrant
Shares, to be sold by the selling stockholders named in the Registration
Statement ("Common Stock").

We have examined such instruments, documents and records as we deemed relevant
and necessary for the basis of our opinion hereinafter expressed. In such
examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures and the
authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to
the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies. With respect to our
opinion below that the shares of Common Stock and the Warrant Shares have been
duly authorized, we have relied solely upon our examination of the authorized
shares provision of the Company's Certificate of Incorporation, as amended to
the date hereof and as certified to be complete and true by the Secretary of the
Company. With respect to our opinion that the Warrant Shares will be validly
issued, we have assumed that such shares will be evidenced by appropriate
certificates, duly executed and delivered.

Based on such examination, we are of the opinion that the shares being
registered pursuant to the Registration Statement are duly authorized shares of
common stock that are (or will be in the case of the Warrant Shares if and when
issued upon the exercise or conversion of the warrants in accordance with the
terms of the warrants) validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement referred to above and the use of our name wherever it
appears in said Registration Statement. This opinion is to be used only in
connection with the sale of the shares of Common Stock by the selling
stockholders and the issuance of the Warrant Shares while the Registration
Statement is in effect.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP

GRAY CARY WARE & FREIDENRICH LLP