[Ilugc] [ILUG-BOM] Indian UID, Aadhar Project Is A Proprietary, Non Open Source Project?
- From: siddhesh.poyarekar@xxxxxxxxx (Siddhesh Poyarekar)
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:25:02 +0530
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya
<swapnil.bhartiya at gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.muktware.com/bitsnbytes/2983
I worked on the story and found oss is only a smoke screen. The entire UID
project seems to be a pure Microsoft stack.
This document provides step-by-step instructions to install the AADHAAR
Enrolment Client and Biometric components needed for Biometrics capturing.
The document is not intended to be a user manual for the AADHAAR Enrolment
Client. The application has been built to work with the given
pre-requisites.
1.1 Installation Pre-requisites
? Operating System: Windows XP SP3 OR Windows 7 (only 32-bit editions)
? Windows Installer 4.5
? Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1
? Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express
? Aadhaar QSS SDK Setup
? Vendor Device Manager
You can see how the UID project has made Microsoft technologies mandatory.
You can't use it without Microsoft. There is no mention of Linux in this
important document.
The API is open:
http://uidai.gov.in/UID_PDF/Front_Page_Articles/Documents/Publications/Aadhaar_ABIS_API.pdf
http://uidai.gov.in/UID_PDF/Front_Page_Articles/Documents/Publications/Aadhaar_Biometric_Capture_Device_API.pdf
http://uidai.gov.in/images/FrontPageUpdates/aadhaar_authentication_api_1_5_rev1_1.pdf
And you also have:
https://developer.uidai.gov.in
https://developer.uidai.gov.in/site/documents
https://developer.uidai.gov.in/site/downloads
The middleware is implemented using AMQP, which is an open standard
(using RabbitMQ). AFAICT, the servers are going to be linux based.
Google for "linux site:uidai.gov.in" without the quotes. Given all of
the above, you ought to be able to write your own client too.
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Siddhesh Poyarekar
http://siddhesh.in
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