Hello all,
I am interested in setting up a password-protected Web site that would
allow users to use fingerprint authentication to bypass entering a
username and password. I know there are a number of products on the
market that can do this, but I am looking for a more "customizable"
interface. We will be using this on some computers that we are placing
in community senior centers and we want to minimize the hazzle of
enrolling their fingerprints (for new users) and authenticating their
fingerprints (for returning users). It occured to me that Cold Fusion
may be able to play a part here, although I am not sure exactly how. We
are prepared to invest in the fingerprint input devices. I expect that
we will also need some proprietary software that stores and retrieves
the fingerprint info when needed. I have included below a hypothetical
scenario on how I was imagining this whole system could work. My
questions are as follows:
Has anyone had any experience with a similar application of Cold Fusion?
Does anyone have any recommendation on a commercial system that we could
interface with Cold Fusion for this purpose?
If there is anyone interested in taking this on as a freelance
consutling project, I would be interested in discussing it with
him/her. Please feel free to contact me off the list.
My idea for how this might work is as follows:
1. User is brought to the Welcome page. They are asked if they are a
�New User� or a �Previous User.� They then select �New User.�
2. User is prompted to enter:
First Name
Last Name
Other demographic info
3. When the new user presses the �Submit� button, Cold Fusion will
automatically assign the first letter of their first name and up to the
first seven letters of their last name as their �Username.�
Cold Fusion will automatically assign a six-character alphanumeric
�Password.�
4. First Name, Last Name, Username and passwords will be saved in a
�Password� database table.
5. The �Submit� button will take the user to a page where they will be
asked to place their index finger on the fingerprint hardware device to
�enroll� their fingerprint. The enrolled fingerprint will be recorded
to the database table associated with that user�s First Name, Last Name,
Username and Password. This �enrollment� page will need to have a
customized look.
6. After the new user is �enrolled�, they will have access to all other
parts of the Web site.
7. When they revisit the site, they will indicate that they are a
�Previous User.� They will then be presented with a Web page where they
will be prompted to place their index finger on the fingerprint hardware
device. They will not need to enter their username nor password. The
fingerprint identification software will search the database for the
matching fingerprint and the associated �First Name� of the user. When
the user is authenticated, a Web page will be presented that
says�.�Welcome back, Stephen� �..and the rest of the Web site menu.
Thanks,
Stephen Pintauro
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Stephen J. Pintauro, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
University of Vermont
Phone: 802-656-0541
http://nutrition.uvm.edu/
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