The exponential growth of the Internet interconnections has led to a significant growth of
cyber attack incidents often with disastrous and grievous consequences. Malware is the …

Biometrics deals with identification of individuals based on their biological or behavioral
characteristics. Biometrics has lately been receiving attention in popular media, it is widely …

A biometric system is vulnerable to a variety of attacks aimed at undermining the integrity of
the authentication process. These attacks are intended to either circumvent the security …

There is no doubting that contemporary technology creates new hazards, and these threats
are many and significant, directly harming people's lives and threatening their stability …

Privacy protection is a crucial problem in many biomedical signal processing applications.
For this reason, particular attention has been given to the use of secure multiparty …

One of the critical steps in designing a secure biometric system is protecting the templates of
the users that are stored either in a central database or on smart cards. If a biometric …

In this correspondence, we analyze the vulnerabilities of biometric authentication protocols
with respect to user and data privacy. The goal of an adversary in such context is not to …

The privacy protection of the biometric data is an important research topic, especially in the
case of distributed biometric systems. In this scenario, it is very important to guarantee that …

With the advent of modern technology, the use of biometric authentication systems has been
on the rise. The core of any biometric system consists of a database which contains the …

Fuzzy commitment schemes, introduced as a link between biometrics and cryptography, are
a way to handle biometric data matching as an error-correction issue. We focus here on …