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Fuzzy vault is a practical and promising fingerprint template protection technology. However, this scheme has some security issues, in which cross-matching between different vaults may be the most serious one. In this paper, we develop an improvement version of fuzzy vault integrating minutiae’s local ridge orientation information. The improved fuzzy fingerprint vault, a two factor authentication scheme to some extent, can effectively prevent cross-matching between different fingerprint vaults. Experimental results show that, if and only if the fingerprint and the password of users are simultaneity obtained by the attacker, the fuzzy vault can be cracked. Results under three scenarios indicate that, although the authentication performance of Scena.1 decreases a little in term of GAR, the security of Scena.2 and Scena.3, hence the security of the whole scheme, is enhanced greatly.
This paper is supported by the Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60875018 and 60621001, National High Technology Research and Development Program of China under Grant No. 2008AA01Z411, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hundred Talents Program, Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant No. 4091004.
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Li, P., Yang, X., Cao, K., Shi, P., Tian, J. (2009). Security-Enhanced Fuzzy Fingerprint Vault Based on Minutiae’s Local Ridge Information. In: Tistarelli, M., Nixon, M.S. (eds) Advances in Biometrics. ICB 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5558. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01793-3_94
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