In this paper, fuzzy vault scheme is discussed for protection of templates in fingerprint recognition system. As fingerprint recognition system is most commonly used biometric, where minutiae points are stored as templates. If attacker gets this database, fake finger or artificial image can be created. Once biometric is compromised, it cannot be reused. This shows importance of template securit...

The critical issues in biometric systems are protecting the template of a user which is stored in a data base. An attack against the stored templates constitutes a major security and privacy threat in a biometric system. Proper use of cryptography greatly reduces the threats in biometric system as the attackers have to find the decryption key and template. This paper proposes an approach for bi...

587 ISSN: 2278 – 7798 All Rights Reserved © 2014 IJSETR  Abstract— Biometrics play a important role for user authentication in distributed environment .But security is main issue so Biocryptography is an art of science which provide security and privacy by using biometric templates. Bio-Cryptography is a progressive technology that combines biometrics with cryptography. It is a method using bi...

Zusammenfassung) Biometrics have been used for secure identification and authentication for more than two decades since biometric data is unique, non-transferable, unforgettable, and always with us. Recently, biometrics has pervaded other aspects of security applications that can be listed under the topic of “Biometric Cryptosystems”. Although the security of some of these systems is questionab...

In general, the identification and verification are done by passwords, pin number, etc., which are easily cracked by others. In order to, overcome this issue biometrics is a unique tool to authenticate an individual person. Biometric is a quantity which consists of an individual physical characteristics of fingerprint, Finger Knuckle Print (FKP), iris, face and so on. These characteristics are ...

The multimedia content protection has become a boon for an IT industry nowadays. This scheme is based on layered encryption/decryption involving biometric authentication. Utilization of fingerprints as keys in encryption/decryption procedures eliminates the feasibility of illegal key sharing, which hampers the content protection schemes based solely on traditional keys. The computation times re...

We describe an identity based signature scheme that uses biometric information to construct the public key. Such a scheme would be beneficial in a legal dispute over whether a contract had been signed or not by a user. A biometric reading provided by the alleged signer would be enough to verify the signature. We make use of Fuzzy extractors [7] to generate a key string from a biometric measurem...

This technical report outlines our views of actual security of biometric authentica-tion and encryption systems. The attractiveness of some novel approaches like cryptographic key generation from biometric data is in some respect understandable, yet so far has lead to various shortcuts and compromises on security. The report starts with an introductory section that is followed by a section abou...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is being applied in multiple domains, including smart homes and energy management. This work aims to tighten security IoTs using fingerprint authentications avoid unauthorized access systems for safeguarding user privacy. Captured fingerprints can jeopardize the privacy personal information. To solve privacy- security-related problems IoT-based environments, Biometr...

We introduce a new type of Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) scheme that we call Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption. In Fuzzy IBE we view an identity as set of descriptive attributes. A Fuzzy IBE scheme allows for a private key for an identity, ω, to decrypt a ciphertext encrypted with an identity, ω′, if and only if the identities ω and ω′ are close to each other as measured by the “set overlap” di...