biometrics software help

theduffer

Hi guys,

I currently doing a project that compares both boimetric fingerprint and voice recogintion as means of security logon authentication in a network senario. Im looking for free trial software that allows me to test these two types of biometric types. I keep getting results for software that allows Iddentification ie 1:1 instead of what im looking for 1:n or many, that can be used in client/server enviroment. Anyone know anything in this area??
Regards

MrScruff

This looks like an interesting book:

http://safari.oreilly.com/?XmlId=0-596-00080-4

You can sign up for 14 days for free with a credit card too I think.

theduffer

thanks for the reply but i really just looking for software. still if all other options fail I can check out the book..

WizZard

Most software will be tied to the hardware it was written for, e.g. fingerprint readers, voice recognition devices, palm readers, etc
They sometimes come with SDKs to allow you to write your own software.

What hardware are you using? And what exactly do you want to compare?

theduffer

I have a laptop, pc,usb microsoft fingerprint reader and a computer microfone. im attempting to set up client-server based authentication

WizZard

Hah, good luck.
We use and sell biometric hardware here where I work. The MS Reader is crap as it doesn't provide a lot of data to work with. (No official SDK either) There is a third-party SDK for it, but it's still brutal. We threw it in the bin.

What are you trying to do?
If it's something like

• Read biometric data
• Create secure token from data
• Compare against database for a match
• Authenticate user if match found

then it's fairly simple, but you have to use that third party SDK I talked about. Woefully slow though, especially across a network. Expect it to take upwards of 40 seconds to authenticate a user if there are more than 3 database entries. Yes, it's that slow. It also slows down exponentially after that, depending on how many users you add.
Dunno how you'll do the voice based stuff though, never worked with voice tech as it's not very accurate.

WizZard

Post up your plan, as detailed as possible and i'll go through it if you want.
Sounds like an ambitious college project...

theduffer

the project is for the implementation of two types of biometric security solutions in a network. Using the hardware available create a client/server model. I chose fingerprint and voice recognition because they were the cheapest hardware to get hold of. with the hardware outlined previously i had hoped that using the usb fingerprint reader to do as you said

Read biometric data
Create secure token
Compare against database for a match
Authenticate user if match found

I might be able to get my hands on the Hamster III which I know is better than the microsoft equivelant. I can get free trial software from biometrictdirect.com that allows authentication of up to 10 users. Its the voice recognition software thats causing problems. I can get plenty of programs that are workstation based (1:1) but nothing similiar to the fingerprint reading solution. Also VB is as far as my programming goes, so a SDK in java or c++ could be out of my relm .