Use of Biometrics for User Verification in Electronic Signature Smartcards

  • Authors:
  • Bruno Struif

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • E-SMART '01 Proceedings of the International Conference on Research in Smart Cards: Smart Card Programming and Security
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

If a smartcard provides security functions such as electronic signature creation, valuables such as electronic money and/or sensitive data such as medical data, then the smartcard has to verify that it is used by the legitimate cardholder. For this purpose, the user has usually to present a PIN. Since smartcards become more and more powerful, it is feasible to implement on-card matching algorithms allowing to perform a biometric user verification in the smartcard.