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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."

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  1. 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.

  2. 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