I followed up on Steve's stripe reader, and implemented a similar system. It
involves the reader impersonating the keyboard, so that data is "typed" into
the users browser just like it came from the keyboard. The reader is plugged
into the end user's keyboard port. The keyboard is then plugged into the
scanner (hence the term, "wedge scanner").
It would be very interesting if a finger print scanner could do this (send
data as raw text through the PS/2 port). If so, what would it send? How
could this be "authenticated" on the server end?
If you find any devices that are capable of this, send out a note!
Norman
-----Original Message-----
From: Avi Flax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:30 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Fingerprint authentication with Cold Fusion?
Stephen, sounds like an interesting project. I myself don't know anything
about this kind of thing, but I remembered that Steve Nelson did something
like this with magnetic cards, so I found the URL just in case it might
help you out.
Here you go:
http://fusebox.org/members/card/index.cfm?fuseaction=cardloginform
HTH!
Avi
At 10:54 AM 6/15/2001 -0500, Stephen Pintauro wrote:
>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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