Archives for March 2004

I checked a bit what I can find in Longhorn concerning that Biometric stuff. And I found that it is BAPI: bapi.dll, . That specification was bought some long time ago from i/o software and I remember that it was planned to have this integrated in Windows XP. I think that Microsoft did not included it because the biometric technology was not ready at that time.

I know a bit more about BioAPI than BAPI, but at the end I think it works almost the same. There is also a <strong><em>Kernel Biometric Service Provider</em></strong>: kbsp.dll and a tool called biotool.exe permiting to enroll a new biometric credential:

During the last Tech Ed in Barcelona I met Ron Jacobs during his presentation of the <b>"Microsoft .NET Reference Building Blocks"</b> on Friday afternoon. That was really a good presentation of the main Building Blocks. Btw I like this idea of Building Blocks and will use most of them in my next release of my web site: <b>Tech Head Bothers</b>. He was kind enough after I made some pictures for him to let me go on stage to make a picture with him showing the web site in background. Cool !!!<br/><br/><br/><br/>Continue the good work with your team!!! And if you want some more pictures of your presentation just contact me.

I finally installed Longhorn and was looking around what was new and found a new service called "Biometric Resource Manager". What a surprise for me, they finally decided to do something in that direction. Nice!!! I worked on that subject in my last company and dealt with algorithms but also with Windows login replacement (ah gina!!! I had so much fun with you), embedded systems, Web authentication... I will for sure follow this story. Is there any publication on that topic?