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Security-enhanced fuzzy fingerprint vault based on minutiae's local ridge information

  • Peng Li*
  • , Xin Yang
  • , Kai Cao
  • , Peng Shi
  • , Jie Tian
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • CAS - Institute of Automation

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Abstract

Fuzzy vaultis 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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Biometrics - Third International Conference, ICB 2009, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages930-939
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3642017924, 9783642017926
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Advances in Biometrics, ICB 2009 - Alghero, Italy
Duration: 2 Jun 20095 Jun 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5558 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Advances in Biometrics, ICB 2009
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityAlghero
Period2/06/095/06/09

Keywords

  • Cross-matching
  • Fuzzy vault
  • Hermit's interpolation polynomial
  • Minutiae descriptor
  • SHA-1

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