After I finished the import I was faced with fact that it was impossible to initialize the Passport framework. There is also a compatibility list, but Microsoft Passport and Windows Hello is not part of it, so there is no guarantee that it will work. I found a lot of information how to use WinRT Components in normal. Here I was confronted with a show stopper: The Microsoft Passport and Windows Hello components were located in the WinRT Framework, but I planned to use the. The next step I had planned was to transfer this sample from UWP into a normal desktop app. But to get started it was a really good resource. It contains a simple xml serialization framework that would need to be replaced by a more secure data layer for productive usage. The sample was short and pretty straightforward. I also started recoding the sample from the pages, creating a simple Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app that performed indentification by Face recognition - See Sample on MSDN. I started to check and go through the information Microsoft provides for integrating “Passport” and “Hello” into applications. These cameras are not widely distributed across the laptop market. The face recognition requires a special camera (“Intel RealSense”), consisting of two cameras for visible light (for 3D scanning), and one infrared camera, to ensure the face recognition is not run on a photograph. Windows uses this service to enable login by face recognition or by other biometric methods, like fingerprint recognition. “Windows Hello” has been available since the release of Windows 10 and is integrated into Microsoft’s sign-on service “Microsoft Passport”. But, in the last couple of years, new techniques for authentication have become available, and we tested some of these technologies - Windows Hello and Google Athtenticator - to make proposals for alternative authentication and authorization technologies for Lexware products - especially for our “on premise” products. Currently all of our Lexware “on-premise” products work, using the well-known user/password login authentication.

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