Privacy-security tradeoffs in biometric security systems

46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 268-273

  Lai, Lifeng ^a   Ho, Siu Wai ^a   Poor, H Vincent ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; BIOMETRIC SECURITY SYSTEMS; COMMON INFORMATIONS; OUTER BOUNDS; SECURITY REGIONS; SIDE INFORMATIONS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); RANDOM VARIABLES; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 64549127364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ALLERTON.2008.4797566     Document Type: Conference Paper

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