The fuzzy vault for fingerprints is vulnerable to brute force attack

Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 43-54

  Mihǎilescu, Preda ^a   Munk, Axel ^a   Tams, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

BIOMETRIC APPLICATIONS; BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION; BRUTE-FORCE ATTACK; CRYPTOGRAPHIC SECURITY; FUZZY VAULT; INFORMATION RESOURCE; PARAMETER SELECTION; SECURITY IMPROVEMENT;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 84873899238     PISSN: 16175468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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