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I bought an IBM USB Fingerprint reader. I want to use it to authenticate a user for database access. When some one tries to access a database, his ID should be provided and then his fingerprint should be matched with an already stored fingerprint. I do not know how to configure the device. Searching the internet did not give me any useful resut. Anyone out there please help. I am doing the programming in php to access a database through the web.
thanks
Jun 8 '07 #1
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pbmods
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Changed thread title to better describe the problem.
Jun 8 '07 #2
ildeher
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Hello everybody, i want to do the same as mlmn, i also have some ideas just need extra information, thanks in advance.
Mar 8 '09 #3
AmberJain
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Hello,
@mlmn
I don't know the answer to your question. Also, I'm not a biometrics expert. But I am presently reading a book Security and Usability which has got some excellant stuff about biometrics. iirc then it has following text somewhere which is worth noting:

"Biometrics provides a false sense of security"

Don't use fingerprints to authenticate access to some resource, as fingers can be cut and some malicious user can then access your database (Here's a example).

AmbrNewlearner
Mar 8 '09 #4
JosAH
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@ambrnewlearner
Really good fingerprint readers can also detect a heartbeat pulse; dead fingers don't show a pulse. Of course you can attach hoses and pumps that pump red coloured lemonade throught the veins of that dead finger but I think all that equipment warns security on the spot ;-)

kind regards,

Jos

ps. at least one of those Schlumberger devices apply that technology; I happen to know that.
Mar 9 '09 #5

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