.................................................................................................................... 1 Background / Context ............................................................................................... 2 Growing Public Awareness and Interest .............................................................. 3 A Biometrics Primer .......................................

Biometric Encryption (BE) is a group of emerging technologies that securely bind a digital key to a biometric or generate a digital key from the biometric, so that no biometric image or template is stored.What is stored is the BE template otherwise known as a ‘‘bio-metrically encrypted key’’ or ‘‘helper data.’’ As a result, neither the digital key nor the biometric can be retrieved from the sto...

Template and database are critical parts of biometric systems. Attacker usually afflict biometric template. There can be various attacks on different modules of biometrics system and communication links among them. Securing templates from these attacks have become very important or imperative issue. Security is achieved by methods of cryptography, which deals with encryption of data. Encryption...

316 Abstract— This paper provides a comparison among different feature encoding schemes used for implementation of biometric system using Iris pattern and suggests which feature encoding scheme is best suited for the creation of biometric template. This paper also proposes an encryption method to secure the templates. The advantage of using an encryption is that, neither the biometric template ...

Biometric based characteristic authentication is an asymmetric [1] authentication technology. This means that the reference biometric data generated during the enrolment process and stored in the biometric database, will never match any freshly offered biometric data exactly (100%). This is commonly accepted due to the nature of the biometric algorithm [2] central to the biometric environment. ...

Biometric encryption systems embed a secret code within a biometric image in a way that it can be decrypted with an image from the enrolled individual. We describe a potential vulnerability in biometric encryption systems that allows a less than brute force regeneration of both the secret code and an estimate of the enrolled image. This vulnerability requires the biometric comparison to “leak” ...

Biometric data is attractive in the eld of cryptography because it uniquely identi es and authenticates an individual. The biometric data itself can also be used as a key for encryption which can later be uniquely decrypted by the same person. We discuss some of the uses of biometric data in cryptography and, in particular, its use in the Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption scheme, a scheme which i...

Q. What is Biometric Encryption (BE)? • Biometric Encryption is a technology that allows you to use your biometric to encrypt a PIN, a password, or an alphanumeric string, for numerous applications – to gain access to computers, to enter buildings, and to privately and securely prove identity, etc. • The PINs can be 100s of bits in length; the length doesn’t matter because you don’t need to rem...

Biometric identification systems are principally related to the information security as well as data protection and encryption. The paper proposes a method to integrate biometrics data encryption and authentication into error correction techniques. The normal methods of biometric templates matching are replaced by a more powerful and high quality identification approach based on Grӧbner bases c...

In this paper, the biometric recognition for verification identification process and various cryptographic techniques for authentication purpose are discussed along with detailed review of literature. the main objective of this approach is to combine both cryptographic and biometric recognition to a system to provide high degree of security with protection against various attackers. Keywords— B...