Improving the accuracy and storage cost in biometric remote authentication schemes

  • Authors:
  • Neyire Deniz Sarier

  • Affiliations:
  • Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, Computer Security Group, Dahlmannstr. 2, D-53113 Bonn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Recently, Bringer et al. proposed a new approach for remote biometric based verification, which consists of a hybrid protocol that distributes the server side functionality in order to detach the biometric data storage from the service provider. Besides, a new security model is defined using the notions of Identity and Transaction Privacy, which guarantee the privacy of the identity-biometrics relationship under the assumption of non-colluding servers. However, due to the high communication and computational costs, the systems following this model cannot be implemented for large scale biometric systems. In this paper, we describe an efficient multi-factor biometric verification system with improved accuracy and lower complexity by considering the range information of every component of the user biometrics separately. Also, the new scheme is provably secure based on the security model of Bringer et al and implements a different database storage that eliminates the disadvantages of encrypted biometric templates in terms of ciphertext expansion. Also, we evaluate different Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes applicable for this setting and propose a practical solution for our scheme that reduces the computation costs dramatically. Finally, we compare our results with existing provably secure schemes and achieve reduced computational cost and database storage cost due to the single storage of the common features of the users in the system and amortization of the time complexity of the PIR.