• FingerForce

Biometrical Authentication in Debian

The Debian Biometrical Authentication Force is a team responsible for init works related with fingerprint authentication and other biometrical works in Debian.

Current Status

The works are still in the initial stage. There are a few links that can help in this stage. At this moment a modified fvs is able to recognize fingerprints. There are efforts packaging libfprint and writing an authentication daemon.

TODO

• Look for drivers/scanners/finger recognition/pam modules available to be included in Debian and package them.

• Do a modular design for all works to get it easy to add new drivers/scanners. See the proposal. (Obsolete, wait for the new one)

• Send a mail to debian-devel announcing this.

Links

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FingerprintAuthentication - similar Ubuntu wiki page

Drivers

• fprintf complete system for aes2501, aes4000, upekts and uru4000!!!! it include a pam module. Tested with login, gdm, kdm ... LGPL!!!! NEW

• aes2501b drivers

• SANE authentec fingerprint backend AES2501

• thinkfinger a driver for the SGS Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader found in most IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads (officially in Debian since Aug 12th 2007)

• Digital Persona / Microsoft Fingerprint Reader Driver for Linux

• FPS200 USB fingerprint sensor driver

• h5400 FSI driver and client library for Linux

• Biopod old code and new code (Authentic, Inc APC BIOPOD)

• Verifinger SDK 4.2 includes fx2000 driver.

• Precise 200 MC driver.

Related sotware

• Bioapi

• pam_bioapi module

• svn checkout http://bioapi-linux.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ bioapi-linux

• gdm with biometrics

• NIST BIOMETRIC IMAGE SOFTWARE (NBIS). Internally used by libfprintf

• Free Fingerprint Imaging Software. Old name for NBIS software

• Fingerprint verification system. There are an improved version in FingerForce alioth svn.

• fprint project: The fprint project aims to plug a gap in the Linux desktop: support for consumer fingerprint reader devices.

Help Documents

• Enable Fingerprint reader on ThinkPads using the ThinkFinger GPL driver

• Enable Fingerprint reader on a T43 using the BioAPI framework

Who we are

• Miguel Gea Milvaques <xerakko at debian dot org>

• Luca Capello <gismo at debian dot org>

• Mariano 'Dererk' Velez <arrob at dererk dot com dot ar>

• Mailing list fingerforce-devel

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