Secure fingerprint-based authentication for lotus notes

Fingerprints have been used to recognize people for several decades. The advent of low cost inkless fingerprint scanners coupled with extra compute power available in client workstations, biometrics in general and fingerprints in particular are being considered for many secure authentication applications. Lotus Notes is a groupware supporting email access and other activities such as calendar management included in it. In this paper, we describe the architecture of a system that integrates both the high security of Notes with conveniences of fingerprints for client authentication. Several design challenges have been addressed that have led to a successful system design and development.