Secure Biometric Authentication with Improved Accuracy

  • Authors:
  • Manuel Barbosa;Thierry Brouard;Stéphane Cauchie;Simão Melo Sousa

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho,;Laboratoire Informatique de l'Université François Rabelais de Tours, ,;Laboratoire Informatique de l'Université François Rabelais de Tours, , and Departamento de Informática, Universidade da Beira Interior,;Departamento de Informática, Universidade da Beira Interior,

  • Venue:
  • ACISP '08 Proceedings of the 13th Australasian conference on Information Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2008

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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.