Fingerprint web API is an easy-to-use software solution that enables biometric time, attendance, and access control machines to communicate seamlessly with your server application.

It is a secure, reliable way to transfer biometric data over the Internet from your fingerprint reader to your Web application, avoiding costly hardware investments and complex Java Runtime Environments (JRE). It also eliminates the need for additional software installations on end-user devices or the hassle of maintaining updates.

What Is a Fingerprint Web API and How Does It Secure Online Activity

The web fingerprinting ecosystem consists of many different methods and tools. Each of them relies on a set of characteristics that differ between each user’s browser and device. These characteristics are converted into a unique profile using a hash function which processes data of arbitrary size to a fixed-size value and makes it easier to log, compare, and analyze. This fingerprint is then matched against the fingerprint database of a website to identify a visitor.

Web fingerprinting has several significant problems. For example, fingerprinting tools are unable to detect files to hash, do not consider the fact that a file can be minified by Content Distribution Networks (CDN) to improve performance, and sometimes generate incorrect fingerprints because of the presence of anti-bot solutions.

Moreover, the fingerprinting surface can be volatile as users change their settings and update software. The fingerprinting problem is therefore of significant concern to Web specification authors, who have been actively addressing it through various ways such as: