Fuzzy vault scheme (FVS) is one of the most popular biometric cryptosystems for biometric template protection. However, error correcting code (ECC) proposed in FVS is not appropriate to deal with real-valued biometric intraclass variances. In this paper, we propose a multidimensional fuzzy vault scheme (MDFVS) in which a general subspace error-tolerant mechanism is designed and embedded into FV...

Dodis et al. proposed an improved version of the fuzzy vault scheme, one of the most popular primitives used in biometric cryptosystems, requiring less storage and leaking less information. Recently, Blanton and Aliasgari have shown that the relation of two improved fuzzy vault records of the same individual may be determined by solving a system of non-linear equations. However, they conjecture...

Biometric template protection is indispensable to protect personal privacy in large-scale deployment of biometric systems. Accuracy, changeability, and security are three critical requirements for template protection algorithms. However, existing template protection algorithms cannot satisfy all these requirements well. In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach that combines random projection...

Biometrics-based authentication has the potential to eliminate illegal key exchange problem associated with traditional cryptosystems. In this paper, we explore the utilization of a fingerprint minutiae line based representation scheme in a new cryptographic construct called fuzzy vault. Minutiae variability is quantified for a fingerprint database marked by a human expert.

The popularity of biometrics and its widespread use introduces privacy risks. To mitigate these risks, solutions such as the helper-data system, fuzzy vault, fuzzy extractors, and cancelable biometrics were introduced, also known as the field of template protection. Fuzzy vault is a practical and promising scheme, which can protect biometric templates and perform secure key management simultane...

Biometrics-based user authentication has several advantages over traditional password-based systems for standalone authentication applications, such as secure cellular phone access. This is also true for new authentication architectures known as crypto-biometric systems, where cryptography and biometrics are merged to achieve high security and user convenience at the same time. In this paper, w...

Several recent works have proposed and implemented cryptography as a means to preserve privacy and security of patient’s health data. Nevertheless, the weakest point of electronic health record (EHR) systems that relied on these cryptographic schemes is key management. Thus, this paper presents the development of privacy and security system for cryptography-based-EHR by taking advantage of the ...

Recently, a cryptographic construct, called fuzzy vault, has been proposed for cryptobiometric systems, and some implementations for fingerprint have been reported to protect the stored fingerprint template by hiding the fingerprint features. Also, solutions to the most challenging issue in applying the fuzzy vault to fingerprint have been proposed. One of the solutions exploits the idea of the...