Paper 2008/302

Secure Biometric Authentication With Improved Accuracy

M. Barbosa, S. Cauchie, T. Brouard, and S. Melo de Sousa

Abstract

We propose a new hybrid protocol for cryptographically secure biometric authentication. The main advantages of the proposed protocol over previous solutions can be summarised as follows: (1) potential for much better accuracy using different types of biometric signals, including behavioural ones; and (2) improved user privacy, since user identities are not transmitted at any point in the protocol execution. The new protocol takes advantage of state-of-the-art identification classifiers, which provide not only better accuracy, but also the possibility to perform authentication without knowing who the user claims to be. Cryptographic security is based on the Paillier public key encryption scheme.

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Applications
Publication info
Published elsewhere. This is the full version of the paper in ACISP 2008.
Keywords
Secure Biometric AuthenticationClassi&#64257er.
Contact author(s)
mbb @ di uminho pt
History
2008-07-08: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2008/302
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2008/302,
      author = {M.  Barbosa and S.  Cauchie and T.  Brouard and S.  Melo de Sousa},
      title = {Secure Biometric Authentication With Improved Accuracy},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2008/302},
      year = {2008},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/302}
}
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