Ionic Fingerprint Identify Unique Person

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Hello everyone.

Is there any way to recognize a person using Android Fingerprint SDK or just retrieve an unique fingerprint ID?
I think that retrieving unique person fingerprint ID should be the easyest way.

I’ve asked there but it seems that Android SDK does not allow:

Is there another way or already built plugin?

I just need something that works like point beat.

Thanks in advance

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Well the easiest way will sure be new phone auth (for example this with Google https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/web/phone-auth).
If you need ultra secure auth with fingerprint, I guess you can cook some code to link Typescript, Fingerprint, and for instance social profiles and location - for example for secure buildings. But again, not sure it will be more secure than true 2 Auth-Form-Factor (which often involves some kind of SMS messages).
Depends the level of security you need, I guess.

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I’m not too sure because I’ve never used fingerprints yet. But I will tell you what I do know… Android and Apple don’t allow us to access fingerprint data. Fingerprint data is “apparently” only stored on the device in a super encrypted area and no where else.

So keep in mind, they’ll never allow you to access fingerprinting data.

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Thanks Neonic, I wasn’t aware of that, it make sense of course.

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