TAMU_HACK_LOGIN

Tamu Central Authorization Service Login Using the Biometrics

The concept came from the pain of remembering the UIN and the hard work one has to put in jotting down the UIN and password to even the simple library website.

We thought, why don't we use the popular Fingerprint sensor of the phone to authenticate.

But the major drawback is that the mobile phone sensors have a secure zone ( hardware isolation for fingerprint sensor) so as to protect the biometric data from the attack from outside world.

We have leveraged the Google API's for fingerprint matching and accessing the authentication results.

Also, we have used the mysql database to hold the data like email and UIN.

Moreover, the sensitive data is being encrypted using the AES crptography algorithm.

Since the timeline was very tight and also the setup of android took lots of time to get us started. Even though we have successfully implemented the authentication stub and the encryption, we were not able to redirect as the TAMU Authentication API's have limited documentation.