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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.
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Uludag, U., Pankanti, S., Jain, A.K. (2005). Fuzzy Vault for Fingerprints. In: Kanade, T., Jain, A., Ratha, N.K. (eds) Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication. AVBPA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3546. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527923_32
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