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Schedule: ThinkFinger

Speakers
Pavel Machek
Timo Hoenig
Schedule
Day Sunday
Room H.1308
Start time 11:15
End time 12:00
Duration 00:45
Info
Event type Podium
Track openSUSE
Language English
Media
Slides (PDF)
Slides (OOo)
Video (Ogg/Theora)
Video (Ogg/Theora/Low quality)
ThinkFinger

ThinkFinger - Don't bother if you lose your password, but please keep your finger safe.

Introduction on ThinkFinger, a driver for the UPEK/STM fingerprint reader. The device is being found either as a standalone USB device, built into USB keyboards or built into laptops (Dell, IBM/Lenovo, Toshiba).

ThinkFinger is a driver for the UPEK/SGS Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader (USB ID 0483:2016).

The device is being found either as a standalone USB device, built into USB keyboards or built into laptops. The following laptop vendors are using the device:

  • Dell
  • IBM/Lenovo
  • Toshiba
Toshiba is shipping their laptops either with the UPEK/SGS Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader or with a fingerprint reader built by AuthenTec. The AuthenTec fingerprint reader is *not* supported by ThinkFinger. SONY laptops with the UPEK/SGS Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader are not supported. ThinkFinger is devided into two parts: libthinkfinger and pam_thinkfinger. libthinkfinger is a library to be used in order to communicate with the fingerprint reader. The talk will give insights about the low-level engineering (usbmon), the library as well as the PAM module.

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