Biohashing for securing fingerprint minutiae templates

Rima Belguechi (1, 2) , Christophe Rosenberger (1) , Samy Ait Aoudia (2)

1 Equipe SAFE - Laboratoire GREYC - UMR6072
2 ESI - École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique [Alger]

The storage of fingerprints is an important issue as this biometric modality is more and more deployed for real applications. The a prori impossibility to revoke a biometric template (like a password) in case of theft, is a major concern for privacy reasons. We propose in this paper a new method to secure fingerprint minutiae templates by storing a biocode while keeping good recognition results. We show the efficiency of the method in comparison to some published methods for different scenarios.

Domaines: Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]

Rima Belguechi, Christophe Rosenberger, Samy Ait Aoudia. Biohashing for securing fingerprint minutiae templates. IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010, Istanboul, Turkey. ⟨hal-00990808⟩