S shinalon22 Member Oct 31, 2021 #1 Hello Is there a way to decrypt a string with fingerprint authentication ? I have an encrypted file that can be decrypted with a password. I want to encrypt the password and get back a decrypted string by using fingerprint authentication. is it possible ?
Hello Is there a way to decrypt a string with fingerprint authentication ? I have an encrypted file that can be decrypted with a password. I want to encrypt the password and get back a decrypted string by using fingerprint authentication. is it possible ?
S shinalon22 Member Oct 31, 2021 #2 let me rephrase the question : Is it possible to decrypt a string/file with biometric authentication ? Upvote 0
let me rephrase the question : Is it possible to decrypt a string/file with biometric authentication ?
Erel B4X founder Staff member Licensed User Longtime User Oct 31, 2021 #3 You can authenticate the user with biometric features: Fingerprint Authentication You don't get access to the key itself. Upvote 0
You can authenticate the user with biometric features: Fingerprint Authentication You don't get access to the key itself.
S shinalon22 Member Nov 1, 2021 #4 Erel said: You don't get access to the key itself. Click to expand... That's a little bit disterbing. Is there a way to get to the key ? because most password manegers apps today gives you an option to get to the database with biometric authntication and if it is not possible to get to the key it means that they are saving the raw password somewere in the app database !!! Upvote 0
Erel said: You don't get access to the key itself. Click to expand... That's a little bit disterbing. Is there a way to get to the key ? because most password manegers apps today gives you an option to get to the database with biometric authntication and if it is not possible to get to the key it means that they are saving the raw password somewere in the app database !!!
Erel B4X founder Staff member Licensed User Longtime User Nov 2, 2021 #5 Technically it is possible to create a key that can only be used after authentication: https://developer.android.com/refer...uilder#setUserAuthenticationRequired(boolean) As far as I remember, no one has exposed this feature in B4A. Upvote 0
Technically it is possible to create a key that can only be used after authentication: https://developer.android.com/refer...uilder#setUserAuthenticationRequired(boolean) As far as I remember, no one has exposed this feature in B4A.
