Biometric authentication and identification systems are increasingly being used in place of
traditional security systems. The introduction of new technology brings new security …

Form a privacy perspective most concerns against the common use of biometrics arise from
the storage and misuse of biometric data. Biometric cryptosystems and cancelable …

The proliferation of online biometric authentication has necessitated security requirements of
biometric templates. The existing secure biometric authentication schemes feature a server …

User authentication is an important issue on the Internet and usually solved through static
and often unique passwords. Another method is to use biometrics, but biometric data are …

This overview paper outlines our views of actual security of biometric authentication and
encryption systems. The attractiveness of some novel approaches like cryptographic key …

In today's complex, geographically mobile, electronically wired information society, the
problem of identifying a person continues to pose a great challenge. Since the conventional …

Biometric systems have been recently developed and used for authentication or
identification in several scenarios, ranging from institutional purposes (border control) to …

In this paper, we analyze two types of biometric identification systems with protected
templates that also support authentication. In the first system, two terminals observe …

This paper addresses privacy leakage in biometric secrecy systems. Four settings are
investigated. The first one is the standard Ahlswede-Csiszar secret-generation setting in …

As biometrics are gaining popularity, there is increased concern over the loss of privacy and
potential misuse of biometric data held in central repositories. The association of fingerprints …