Paper 2014/026
Studying Potential Side Channel Leakages on an Embedded Biometric Comparison System
Maël Berthier, Yves Bocktaels, Julien Bringer, Hervé Chabanne, Taoufik Chouta, Jean-Luc Danger, Mélanie Favre, and Tarik Graba
Abstract
We study in this work the potential side channel leakages of a hardware biometric comparison system that has been designed for fingerprints. An embedded biometric system for comparison aims at comparing a stored biometric data with a freshly acquired one without the need to send the stored biometric data outside the system. Here one may try to retrieve the stored data via side channel, similarly as for embedded cryptographic modules where one may try to exploit side channel for attacking the modules. On one hand, we show that we can find partial information by the means of simple Side Channel Analysis that may help to retrieve the stored fingerprint. On the other hand, we illustrate that reconstructing the fingerprint remains not trivial and we give some simple countermeasures to protect further the comparison algorithm.
Note: This work was partially funded by the French ANR project BMOS.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Preprint. MAJOR revision.
- Keywords
- Side Channel AnalysisHardware Biometric CoprocessorBiometric Comparison
- Contact author(s)
- julien bringer @ gmail com
- History
- 2014-01-10: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2014/026
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2014/026,
author = {Maël Berthier and Yves Bocktaels and Julien Bringer and Hervé Chabanne and Taoufik Chouta and Jean-Luc Danger and Mélanie Favre and Tarik Graba},
title = {Studying Potential Side Channel Leakages on an Embedded Biometric Comparison System},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2014/026},
year = {2014},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/026}
}
