How to protect biometrie templates

Yagiz Sutcu, Qiming Li, Nasir Memon

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Abstract

In addition to the inherent qualities that biometrics posses, powerful signal processing tools enabled widespread deployment of the biometric-based identification/verification systems. However, due to the nature of biometric data, well-established cryptographic tools (such as hashing, encryption, etc.) are not sufficient for solving one of the most important problems related to biometric systems, namely, template security. In this paper, we examine and show how to apply a recently proposed secure sketch scheme in order to protect the biometric templates. We consider face biometrics and study how the performance of the authentication scheme would be affected after the application of the secure sketch. We further study the trade-off between the performance of the scheme and the bound of the entropy loss from the secure sketch.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of SPIE-IS and T Electronic Imaging - Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX
StatePublished - 2007
EventSecurity, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX - San Jose, CA, United States
Duration: Jan 29 2007Feb 1 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume6505
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Other

OtherSecurity, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose, CA
Period1/29/072/1/07

Keywords

  • Biometrics
  • Entropy loss
  • Quantization
  • Secure sketch
  • Template security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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