Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 14:45:26 +0200 From: Fredrik Lindberg <fli+freebsd-hackers@shapeshifter.se> To: aanton@spintech.ro Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Cesar <listas@itm.net.br> Subject: Re: Fingerprint Authentication Message-ID: <445B48E6.3070000@shapeshifter.se> In-Reply-To: <445B35EA.5080009@spintech.ro> References: <00fb01c66fb2$a8e157c0$0501010a@ironman> <445A5F48.60303@spintech.ro> <200605051009.49344.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <445AF8AB.9080008@shapeshifter.se> <445B35EA.5080009@spintech.ro>
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Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: > Fredrik Lindberg wrote: > > > > > The only way as I see it (to even make it possible with UPEKs driver) > > is to have a reader at both the remote machine and the client machine > > and then capture a BioAPI record at the client machine and have the > server verify it. But that involves transferring the record in a secure > > way to the server. > > > > Or simply have a reader on client side, which if correctly > authentificated will issue public-key auth with the server, or sort of.. > :) Not really BioAPI auth, but it enables the user to do remote logins > by putting the finger on the reader.. > But that would sort of defeat the whole purpose of biometric authentication and you could really just use public keys instead which would be a lot faster and easier than scanning your finger at each login. :) Fredrik Lindberg
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