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minus-squareLojcs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoPretty sure this is not true. That’s how apple’s fingerprint scanners work. On android the fingerprint data is stored either in the tpm or a part of the storage encrypted by it.
minus-squaredev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoYeah, so the app never sees it. What are you disagreeing with?
minus-squareLojcs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI just corrected that, can’t I without disagreeing?
minus-squaredev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI mean that I don’t know what part of my comment is “not true”. I welcome corrections, I just don’t see what is being corrected here.
minus-squareLojcs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 days agoIt doesn’t send a yes/no signal it sends the fingerprint to be compared to the stored one
minus-squaredev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 days agohttps://developer.android.com/identity/sign-in/biometric-auth#display-login-prompt The app gets either the onAuthenticationSucceeded or onAuthenticationFailed callback. It doesn’t get the fingerprint. Edit: I think we are misunderstanding each other, I’m saying that apps never see the fingerprint. The OS does, depending on the device.
minus-squareLojcs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days ago I think we are misunderstanding each other Exactly
Pretty sure this is not true. That’s how apple’s fingerprint scanners work. On android the fingerprint data is stored either in the tpm or a part of the storage encrypted by it.
Yeah, so the app never sees it. What are you disagreeing with?
I just corrected that, can’t I without disagreeing?
I mean that I don’t know what part of my comment is “not true”. I welcome corrections, I just don’t see what is being corrected here.
It doesn’t send a yes/no signal it sends the fingerprint to be compared to the stored one
https://developer.android.com/identity/sign-in/biometric-auth#display-login-prompt
The app gets either the
onAuthenticationSucceededoronAuthenticationFailedcallback. It doesn’t get the fingerprint.Edit: I think we are misunderstanding each other, I’m saying that apps never see the fingerprint. The OS does, depending on the device.
Exactly