The fuzzy vault approach is one of the best studied and well accepted ideas for binding cryptographic security into biometric authentication. We present in this paper a brute force attack which improves upon the one described by Clancy et. al. [CKL] in an implementation of the vault for fingerprints. On base of this attack, we show that three implementations of the fingerprint vault are vulnera...

Vaults are 13 million Da ribonucleoprotein particles with a highly conserved structure. Expression and assembly by multimerization of an estimated 96 copies of a single protein, termed the major vault protein (MVP), is sufficient to form the minimal structure and entire exterior shell of the barrel-shaped vault particle. Multiple copies of two additional proteins, VPARP and TEP1, and a small un...

PURPOSE To compare the central postoperative vault of a phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) to correct myopia, myopic astigmatism, and hyperopia and identify ocular and lens parameters that might predict the vault amount. SETTING Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain. DESIGN Cohort study. METHODS Three months after implantation of Implantable Collamer Lens pIOLs to correct m...

Vaults are 13 megadalton ribonucleoprotein particles composed largely of the major vault protein (MVP) and two high molecular weight proteins, p240 and p193, and a small vault RNA (vRNA). Increased levels of MVP expression, vault-associated vRNA, and vaults have been linked directly to multidrug resistance (MDR). To further define the putative role of vaults in MDR, we produced monoclonal antib...

Vaults are barrel-shaped cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein particles that are composed of a major vault protein (MVP), two minor vault proteins [telomerase-associated protein 1 (TEP1), vault poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (VPARP)] and small untranslated RNA molecules. Not all expressed TEP1 and VPARP in cells is bound to vaults. TEP1 is known to associate with the telomerase complex, whereas VPARP is ...

This paper describes the design and implementationof an on-line, distributed data repository, known as an electronic vault (e-Vault), which stores information across a network securely so that integrity is preserved even when some of the servers malfunction. After a document has been deposited by a client, the e-Vault returns a receipt to the client which can be used to verify that the document...

Vaults and telomerase are ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particles that share a common protein subunit, TEP1. Although its role in either complex has not yet been defined, TEP1 has been shown to interact with the mouse telomerase RNA and with several of the human vault RNAs in a yeast three-hybrid assay. An mTep1(-/-) mouse was previously generated which resulted in no apparent change in telomere leng...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate morphology and frequency of lower genital infections in (post hysterectomy) vault smears of women. METHODS We analyzed vault smears from 500 women who had undergone hysterectomy, either for benign diseases (230) or for carcinoma cervix (270) and findings were compared with Pap smear diagnosis of non-hysterectomy subjects. RESULTS Majority 432/500 (87%) of the vault sme...

personal authentication and identification as compared to the traditional authentication methods. Biometric templates are vulnerable to variety of attacks due to their inherent nature. When a person's biometric is compromised his identity is lost. In contrast to password, biometric is not revocable. Therefore, providing security to the stored biometric template is very crucial. Crypto biometric...

Vault is the largest nonicosahedral cytosolic nucleoprotein particle ever described. The widespread presence and evolutionary conservation of vaults suggest important biologic roles, although their functions have not been fully elucidated. X-ray structure of vault from rat liver was determined at 3.5 Å resolution. It exhibits an ovoid shape with a size of 40 × 40 × 67 nm(3). The cage structure ...