Untargeted Near-collision Attacks on Biometrics: Real-world Bounds and Theoretical Limits

A biometric recognition system can operate in two distinct modes: identification or verification. In the first mode, the system recognizes an individual by searching the enrolled templates of all the users for a match. In the second mode, the system validates a user's identity claim by comparing the fresh provided template with the enrolled template. The biometric transformation schemes usually produce binary templates that are better handled by cryptographic schemes, and the comparison is based on a distance that leaks …

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