Things are still busy with my new project. Here are a few more fprint releases which add some crucial features:
- libfprint v0.0.3 adds support for the Authentec AES1610 found in various common laptops/tablets, contributed by Anthony Bretaudeau. These fingerprint readers only see a small area of the finger so imaging performance isn’t great, but it is usable!
- pam_fprint v0.2 adds an enrollment application contributed by Vasily Khoruzhick, and has been fixed not to activate itself for logins over SSH.
- fprint_demo v0.2 and v0.3 add various bits of functionality: enrollment GUI, image saving functionality, plus the ability to count and plot detected minutiae points.
fprint_demo v0.3 showing minutiae plotted on scan image
Sweet. CSI meets Linux!
How far along is the project? i.e. could it be put into Portage (at any point)?
I may add fprint_demo and libfprint soon. I am not so sure about adding fprint_pam because the libfprint API is not guaranteed to be stable and I don’t want to break login for people. Breaking fprint_demo is not such a big deal.
Whose fingerprint did you just publish?