On 2020-01-13 12:56 a.m., Benson Muite wrote:
On 1/12/20 9:38 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
The challenge about upstream is when they lack activity for years and
contributions are very difficult when users lack knowledge of coding
without proper guidance. For example, attempting to improve say
CellWriter (sorely missing due to the lack of port to Wayland
compositor) and howdy, a Windows Hello facial recognition like for
convertible laptops turned out too much as a graphic designer and
trying to get someone knowing to code turned out complex than
anticipated.
Only options is to actively test and give input so far.
Deepin Linux seems to have a face recognition login (or at least
support for this), but still searching for the implementation. The two
PAM based authentications (Howdy and PAM-facial-auth):
https://github.com/devinaconley/pam-facial-auth
https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy
seem to suggest they are not intended when high security is required.
Tests on manufacturer developed authentication also seem to suggest
not so secure:
https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-09/Nguyen/BlackHat-DC-09-Nguyen-Face-not-your-password-slides.pdf
However, a number of banks and KFC do use this in China, so maybe a
good open source implementation is missing (something other than a
trial version). Most of these rely on machine learning algorithms,
maybe something machine learning SIG might be interested in.
Thank you for the PDF. However, the presentation is sightly outdated
given the listed hardware dating from 2008. Some modern laptops are
equipped with a IR camera Windows Hello type device which could be
suitable for iris recognition similar to devices like Samsung Galaxy S9.
Speaking about howdy, I packaged it on COPR for testing purpose and
looking for improvement. I am aware of fprintd but it is beyond my scope,
--
Luya Tshimbalanga
Fedora Design Team
Fedora Design Suite maintainer
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