Fuzzy vault for fingerprints

  • Authors:

  • Umut Uludag;Sharath Pankanti;Anil K. Jain

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI;Exploratory Computer Vision Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

  • Venue:
  • AVBPA'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Biometrics-based user authentication has several advantages over traditional password-based systems for standalone authentication applications, such as secure cellular phone access. This is also true for new authentication architectures known as crypto-biometric systems, where cryptography and biometrics are merged to achieve high security and user convenience at the same time. In this paper, we explore the realization of a previously proposed cryptographic construct, called fuzzy vault, with the fingerprint minutiae data. This construct aims to secure critical data (e.g., secret encryption key) with the fingerprint data in a way that only the authorized user can access the secret by providing the valid fingerprint. The results show that 128-bit AES keys can be secured with fingerprint minutiae data using the proposed system.