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Approach to cryptographic key generation from fingerprint biometrics

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Debasis Samanta,

Samiran ChattopadhyayAuthors Info & Claims

International Journal of Biometrics, Volume 7, Issue 3

Pages 226 - 248

https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBM.2015.071946

Published: 01 September 2015 Publication History

Abstract

In crypto-biometric system CBS, biometric is combined with cryptography. In CBS, either accessing a cryptographic key is controlled with biometric or the key is generated from biometric features. This work is related to the latter approach in CBS. In such a system, protecting the privacy of the biometric data is an important concern. Further, there is a need to generate different cryptographic keys from the same biometric template of a user. Cancellable transformation of biometric data prior to the key generation is known as a solution. In this paper, we propose an approach to generate cryptographic key from cancellable fingerprint templates C_{t< small>< sub> of sender and receiver to ensure the privacy fingerprints at same time, it produces revocable key for application symmetric cryptography. the between-person variability c_{t< small>< sub>s guarantees the randomness which ensures that impostor users are not able to generate a genuine c_{t< small>< sub> to break the cryptographic key.< p>t<>}t<>}t<>}

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2016.11.017

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International Journal of Biometrics Volume 7, Issue 3

September 2015

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ISSN:1755-8301

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