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A Biometrics based Authentication Server Development
 
 
The Customer
The customer company’s product is the next generation in network and protocol security. The company’s credo is to create new technologies that provide enhanced security and authentication while working with current hardware and network protocol configurations.

The customer provides unprecedented security and authentication technologies that are usable from any network device. Its flagship product, 'Mobio' is three factor authentication that uses a person's biometric data to truly authenticate their identity. The customer helps organizations solve the problems associated with ongoing system authentication. They enable mobile digital identities to be used in many different situations where users, systems or processes interact.

 
The Challenge

The customer wanted to develop a robust and scalable Authentication Server that would support their Biometric Services based authentication over LDAP protocol. Wipro was approached to design and develop the Authentication Server.

The key challenges faced by wipro during the project were,
Implement proprietary protocol to download user certificates
Come up with a proxy that can handle HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP3 protocols for secure email and web transactions
Develop an OpenPGP toolkit
Allow integration of Authentication Server with existing directories containing standard user profiles
Develop an Administration Module for user management, Mobio management and proxy-rule management
Develop an Enrollment Module for self registration of users, Mobio Initialization and Mobio Authentication
Develop a module for enabling desktop authentication based on Mobio
 
The Solution

Wipro catered to the customer’s needs by designing and developing an Authentication Server with the Digital Certificate Transfer Protocol (DCTP).

DCTP is a proprietary certificate management protocol to enable mobility of private digital certificates in a redundant and secure storage mechanism accessible only to an authenticated user of Mobio. It also addresses all risks and issues associated with private-key storage and issues that hinder the use of certificates in real-world applications.

Wipro developed the Authentication Server that is part of Mobio authentication and communication security for strong user authentication. It works in conjunction with the Mobio hardware and Mobio Verification Algorithm.

Wipro’s distinct deliverables to the customer comprise of the following,
Enrollment Web Application that can be used to enroll users into the system via functionalities such as self-service, Mobio initialization etc
Mobio Authentication Server (henceforth referred as MAS) Admin Web Application that will enable administrators to manage users, Mobio etc
MAS SDK that will enable developers to integrate applications to support Mobio based authentication
MAS Windows GINA that can be utilized to enable mobio-based authentication to desktops
Mobio Verification Process & Storage Engine and MAS LDAP Proxy that will enable Mobio verification, initialization and resynchronization over LDAP/S protocol
MAS Proxy, an application aware proxy that can be used to secure email and web transactions
 
Tools and Technologies
Component Product
LDAP SunOne Directory Server, Microsoft Active Directory Server
Protocols IMAP, HTTP, LDAP, SMTP, POP3
Application server TomcatV4
OS Windows NT/2000, RedHat Linux 8.0
J2EE JNDI, JSSE
GINA Winlogon GINA Framework
Toolkits BouncyCastle LightWeight Cryptography API
 
Benefits to the customer
Time to market advantage
Effective implementation and integration of Wipro’s Authentication Server with customer’s flagship product, ‘Mobio’, reduces risk and accelerates time to market
Cost Benefits
Wipro’s Authentication Server optimizes the customer’s Biometric services performance by directly improving production time and reducing operation expenses
Interoperability and scalability
Wipro's Authentication Server is cost effective to implement and easy to integrate with no infrastructure change. As environments are becoming more complex, it provides a security infrastructure that can grow to meet the needs of the environment
Quality
Wipro's strict adherence to ‘Quality Process’ has enabled to deliver excellent service in terms of strong expertise, processes and infrastructure. Wipro’s Six Sigma reduces defects and cycle times in support function processes.
 
Customer speak
We are very excited to be working with Wipro. Our development team is really happy with the great work you are doing!!! Wipro deserves all the success you have been achieving lately, both with us and the software industry as a whole.

Clovis Najm, CEO

 
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