From the course: Biometric Authentication for iOS in Swift

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App security

App security

From the course: Biometric Authentication for iOS in Swift

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App security

- [Instructor] The idea of biometric authorization is to allow your app to determine if the user is the owner of the device or has an account in your app. So of course we're talking about security here. We want to make sure they're allowed in and biometric authentication is going to do the work for us. But as the user, I want to know that the app isn't going to misuse my fingerprint or 3D map of my face, that's creepy. The good news is the developer as we mentioned doesn't have to do much more work than request biometric authentication to be presented to the user, not much work. The other good news is that as the developer you can't do much more, you don't get access to the fingerprint or other data from what's called the secure enclave, sounds like a reality TV show. The secure enclave is a hardware-based security processor, it's separate from the rest of the hardware and the data in it can't be accessed even by the OS. This guy is really shy and doesn't say much. In fact, you only…

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