[fprint] upek 147e:2016 reverse engineering progress

Daniel Drake dan at reactivated.net
Tue Jul 8 00:48:02 BST 2008


Pavel Herrmann wrote:
> Just a thought, is the only difference between UPEK TS scanner variants 
> the existence of the crypto coprocessor? Can we try to bypass the 
> coprocessor and turn the "old" variant supported by upekts driver into 
> imaging device as in windows with the advantage of identification?

I don't know the details of the differences, but libbsapi only supports 
the sensor-only devices and my own code does not work with the 
coprocessor variant.

Also we can do identification with the 0483:2016 hardware, it's just we 
haven't reverse engineered that bit yet.

Daniel


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