A Framework for UC Secure Privacy Preserving Biometric Authentication using Efficient Functional Encryption

ePrint Report: A Framework for UC Secure Privacy Preserving Biometric Authentication using Efficient Functional Encryption

Johannes Ernst, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa

Despite its popularity, password based authentication is susceptible to various kinds of attacks, such as online or offline dictionary attacks. Employing biometric credentials in the authentication process can strengthen the provided security guarantees, but raises significant privacy concerns. This is mainly due to the inherent variability of biometric readings that prevents us from simply applying a standard hash function to them. …

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