Rick, this is from Network World, July 20, 1998:
"[R]ecently we've seen Novell award a prize for best Novell Directory Services application to Mission Data Systems for that company's SentriNET user authentication system, which uses fingerprint recognition. And just a couple of weeks ago, Compaq announced a fingerprint reader, Compaq Fingerprint Identification Technology, which will sell for less than $ 100. Fingerprint reading is just the start, however. In talking to Hal Jennings of Biometric Access Corp. (www.biometricaccess.com) and Joe Burke at Miros (www.miros.com), both emphasized that facial recognition was the future for biometric access and authentication."
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That's all I could find on "SentriNet" and "fingerprint". Given that the only biometric partners mentioned by Mission Data were Cherry (an IDX sales channel), RSA (a nonfingerprint biometric provider) and BAC (a backer in this story of facial recognition), I am not alarmed. Further, BAC is partnering with STM on a silicon chip approach; silicon still is a nonstarter for technical reasons. Mission Data has an application written to the Novell system, but it does not have a biometrics business itself.
Finally, there was nothing on smart card logon that came up in my keyword search. It still hasn't happened for Mission Data. For all we know, Mission Data is going to use BioLogon 2.0, and is held up by whatever is holding up IDX on that product. |
