Although RFID is mostly used for ticketing, e-passports and supply chain management applications, the technology is also suitable for transponder based navigation systems. There it can be applied to leave a virtual trace on writeable RFID tags. These applications use RFID in a different way, because the tags are stationary and related to each other, since each tag of the path points to the foll...

Implementing a comprehensive healthcare security model is a difficult task due to the many complexities in the medical environment. Accurate patient identification is often overlooked in the areas of security and privacy. We have used our own architecture and experiences to bring forward this problem and offer suggestive solutions of incorporating biometric fingerprints and photographs of patie...

In biometric identification systems, the identity associated with the input data is determined by comparing it against every entry in the database. This exhaustive matching process increases the response time of the system and, potentially, the rate of erroneous identification. This paper presents a survey on the indexing methods that are currently available for fingerprint. Fingerprint indexin...

Antemortem (AM) identification, that is identification prior to death, is usually possible through comparison of many biometric identifiers. While postmortem (PM) identification, that is identification after death, is impossible using behavioral biometrics (e.g. speech). Moreover, under severe circumstances, such as those encountered in mass disasters (e.g. airplane crashers, wars) or if identi...

Biometrics based personal identification is regarded as an effective method for automatically recognizing, with a high confidence a person’s identity. A multimodal biometric systems consolidate the evidence presented by multiple biometric sources and typically better recognition performance compare to system based on a single biometric modality. This paper proposes an authentication method for ...

Wireless RFID networks are getting deployed at a rapid pace and have already entered the public space on a massive scale: public transport cards, the biometric passport, office ID tokens, customer loyalty cards, etc. Although RFID technology offers interesting services to customers and retailers, it could also endanger the privacy of the end-users. The lack of protection mechanisms being deploy...

Most developed countries have started the implementation of biometric electronic identification cards, especially passports. The European Union and the United States of America struggle to introduce and standardize these electronic documents. Due to the personal nature of the biometric elements used for the generation of these cards, privacy issues were raised on both sides of the Atlantic Ocea...

The European Union sees the introduction of the ePassport as a step towards rendering passports more secure against forgery while facilitating more reliable border controls. In this paper we take an interdisciplinary approach to the key security and privacy issues arising from the use of ePassports. We further analyse how European data protection legislation must be respected and what additiona...