Biometric cryptosystems: Issues and challenges

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 948-959

  Uludag, Umut ^a   Pankanti, Sharath ^b   Prabhakar, Salil ^c   Jain, Anil K ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c DigitalPersona Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Authentication; Biometrics; Confidentiality; Cryptography; Entropy; Fingerprints; Invariance; Key binding; Key generation; Key release; Multibiometrics; Privacy; Secrecy; Security

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PRIVACY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; INVARIANCE; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

AUTHENTICATION; BIOMETRICS; CONFIDENTIALITY; FINGERPRINTS; KEY BINDING; KEY GENERATION; KEY RELEASE; MULTIBIOMETRICS; SECRECY;

PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 10044222391     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2004.827372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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