With the usage of biometrics becoming commonly used in a variety of applications, keeping
those biometrics private and secure is an important issue. Indeed, the convenience of using …

It is both crucial and challenging to protect biometric data used for biometric identification
and authentication systems, while keeping the systems user friendly. We study the design …

This chapter presents a general approach for handling secret biometric data in
cryptographic applications. The generality manifests itself in two ways: We attempt to …

The use of biometric features as key material in security protocols has often been suggested
to relieve their owner from the need to remember long cryptographic secrets. The appeal of …

We show that there is a direct relation between the maximum length of the keys extracted
from biometric data and the error rates of the biometric system. The length of the bio-key …

Biometrics can provide alternative methods for security than conventional authentication
methods. There has been much research done in the field of biometrics, and efforts have …

We provide formal definitions and efficient secure techniques for turning biometric
information into keys usable for any cryptographic application, and reliably and securely …

After the concept of a Fuzzy Extractor (FE) was first introduced by Dodis et al., it has been
regarded as one of the candidate solutions for key management utilizing biometric data …

Biometric techniques have traditionally been used in various cybersecurity applications. For
instance, some user authentication systems use biometric facial images, fingerprints, iris …

This thesis focuses on the analysis of techniques for the protection of biometric data. The
increasing use of biometrics for the identification and authentication of individuals has raised …