Privacy Preserving Biometric Authentication for Fingerprints and Beyond

ePrint Report: Privacy Preserving Biometric Authentication for Fingerprints and Beyond

Marina Blanton, Dennis Murphy

Biometric authentication eliminates the need for users to remember secrets and serves as a convenient mechanism for user authentication. Traditional implementations of biometric-based authentication store sensitive user biometry on the server and the server becomes an attractive target of attack and a source of large-scale unintended disclosure of biometric data. To mitigate the problem, we can resort to privacy-preserving computation and store only protected biometrics on …

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