[fprint] libfprint v0.0.1 and pam_fprint v0.1 release

[Daniel Drake]

Vishal Rao wrote:
> Nice!
> 
> Have you been contacted by or do you plan to work with other Linux
> distros such as Fedora?

I have not been contacted by any. I plan to continue working in a 
distro-agnostic fashion and would love to work with any developers (from 
distros or otherwise) who have similar ideas.

libfprint is just the start: I do want to see fingerprinting integrated 
into other software and will work to make it so. pam_fprint is the first 
step in that direction.

> I have an AES1610 in an HP Pavilion tx1302au tablet PC which is listed
> under the unsupported portion of your wiki. Do you think it's possible
> to use one of the existing drivers and just add the USB ID to the USB
> table and get it to work, or is there a lot of binary data changes in
> there? Any chance of seeing this model supported in the near future?

I don't know much about this device, and don't have specs either.

I was recently made aware of a project called fingerforce and I saw this 
on their mailing list:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/fingerforce-devel/2007-September/000015.html

So, maybe try adding the USB ID to libfprint's aes2501 driver, and/or 
try contacting the people in that email to get their code and an 
explanation of changes needed on top of the aes2501 driver.

Daniel