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Biometric/Token Authentication and Seamless Integration?

Posted by Cliff on from the your-body-as-your-password dept.

NeuralAbyss asks: "With all the recent discussions on biometric, password and token authentication, I thought I'd ask one simple question that no websites seem to be able to answer: What devices integrate transparently with pre-built infrastructure (Linux, *BSD, Novell, Windows NT/2K)? Any advice from Slashdot readers out there would be quite helpful, as I am looking into biometric/token authentication for a network that I administer, currently a Win2000/Novell hybrid."

9 comments

  1. Something really unbelievable by PD · · Score: 1, Troll

    Finger print readers apparently are easy to foil now. Someone figured out how to make a case of a finger out of silicone to fool most readers on the market. Now, biometrics researchers are zeroing in on a new technique that's not so easily fooled. Buttocks pressure. Don't laugh! Apparently the way a person pushes on their chair with their buttocks is far more unique and foolproof than fingerprints. And the researchers claim they can ignore signal variation caused by weight gain or fidgeting.

    Technology is so amazing that sometimes I have a hard time believing it is true...

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    1. Re:Something really unbelievable by ChiPHeaD23 · · Score: 1

      This technology sounds like a lot of hot air to me.

    2. Re:Something really unbelievable by malice95 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Smells a bit fishy to me:P

  2. Check novell first by un_eternal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most biometric devices will work with Windows, Go to novell.com and do a search for NMAS(Novell Modular Authentication Service). They have links to all thier partners whose products work with NMAS, you will have to buy NMAS licences incidently. You will need to be running at least Netware 5.0 in order to use NMAS, once you do it's pretty seamless.

    I've set it up in a lab environment and for demo's at a couple of tech shows.

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  3. pGina may work... if you dont mind coding a little by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    http://pgina.cs.plu.edu or http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgina may work for the Windows side. It is similar in concept to NMAS but open source. It uses plugins to do authentication, so all you would have to do is write the code to interface with whatever device you want to use - which I believe most devices provide SDK's for anyway.

  4. you are not the GUV so dont try it by johnjones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    if you are a company dont try this stick with passwords

    just actually force your users to change them and use decent hashing on all your files

    wake up the only people who can do biometric are guv's beacsue its so damn expensive TO GET RIGHT most are cheap fail within 6mths or simply by blowing on it you can fool them

    regards

    john 'paranoid no I just know' jones

    1. Re:you are not the GUV so dont try it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I'm rather curious what systems you can fool by "simply blowing on it". I've worked with finger print scanners, iris scanners, video recognition software, retinal scanners, and voice identification, and as far as I've seen... you could blow all you want without affecting a thing.

      However, it -is- true that most systems are too expensive for a private company to afford at this time. Most Biometrics projects are Government facilities or airports. Wait a few years for the prices to go down before attempting this type of system.

      -Anonymous "I know who you are" Biometrics Coward