• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.2237-2253
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• 2017

For the existing security problem based on Fuzzy Vault algorithm, we propose a cancelable fingerprint template encryption scheme in this paper. The main idea is to firstly construct an irreversible transformation function, and then apply the function to transform the original template and template information is stored after conversion. Experimental results show it effectively prevents the attack from fingerprint template data and improves security of the system by using minutiae descriptor to encrypt abscissa of the vault. The experiment uses public FVC2004 fingerprint database to test, result shows that although the recognition rate of the proposed algorithm is slightly lower than the original program, but the improved algorithm security and complexity are better, and therefore the proposed algorithm is feasible in general.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.11-21
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• 2008

Biometrics-based user authentication has several advantages over traditional password-based systems for standalone authentication applications. This is also true for new authentication architectures known as crypto-biometric systems, where cryptography and biometrics are merged to achieve high security and user convenience at the same time. Recently, a cryptographic construct, called fuzzy vault, has been proposed for crypto-biometric systems. This construct aims to secure critical data(e.g., secret key) with the fingerprint data in a way that only the authorized user can access the secret by providing the valid fingerprint, and some implementations results for fingerprint have been reported. However, the previous results had some limitation of the provided security due to the limited numbers of chaff data fer hiding real fingerprint data. In this paper, we propose an approach to provide both the automatic alignment of fingerprint data and higher security by using a 3D geometric hash table. Based on the experimental results, we confirm that the proposed approach of using the 3D geometric hash table with the idea of the fuzzy vault can perform the fingerprint verification securely even with more chaff data included.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.125-133
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• 2009

Security of biometric data is particularly important as the compromise of the data will be permanent. To protect the biometric data, we need to store it in a non.invertible transformed version. Thus, even if the transformed version is compromised, its valid biometric data are securely remained. Fuzzy vault mechanism was proposed to provide cryptographic secure protection of critical data(e.g., encryption key) with the fingerprint data in a way that only the authorized user can access the critical data by providing the valid fingerprint. However, all the previous results cannot operate on the fingerprint image with a few minutiae, because they use fixed degree of the polynomial without considering the number of fingerprint minutiae. To solve this problem, we use adaptive degree of polynomial considering the number of minutiae. Also, we apply multiple polynomials to operate the fingerprint with a few minutiae. Based on the experimental results, we confirm that the proposed approach can enhance the security level and verification accuracy.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.310-316
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• 2013

Biometric techniques have been widely used for various areas including criminal identification due to their reliability. However, they have some drawbacks when the biometric information is divulged to illegal users. This paper proposed multimodal biometric system using a real fuzzy vault by RN-ECC for protecting fingerprint and face template. This proposed method has some advantages to regenerate a key value compared with face or fingerprint based verification system having non-regenerative nature and to implement advanced biometric verification system by fusion of both fingerprint and face recognition. From the various experiments, we found that the proposed method shows high recognition rates comparing with the conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.889-892
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• 2006

생체정보를 이용한 사용자 인증시스템은 편리함과 동시에 강력한 보안을 제공할 수 있다. 그러나 사용자 인증을 위해 저장된 중요한 생체정보가 타인에게 도용된다면 심각한 문제를 일으킨다. 따라서 타인에게 유출되더라도 재사용이 불가능하도록 하기 위하여 사용자의 생체정보에 역변환이 불가능한 함수를 적용하여 저장하고 변환된 상태에서 인증 과정을 수행할 수 있는 방법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 최근 지문 템플릿(Fingerprint Template)을 보호하기 위해 암호학적 방법으로 연구되어지고 있는 퍼지볼트(Fuzzy Vault) 이론을 이용하여 안전하게 지문 템플릿을 보호하는 방법을 제안한다. 특히, 지문 템플릿에 퍼지볼트 이론을 단순 적용할 경우 기준점 부재로 인하여 야기되는 지문 정렬(alignment) 문제를 해결하기 위하여 기하학적 해싱(Geometric Hashing)방법을 사용하였다. 실험을 통하여 제안한 지문 퍼지볼트(Fuzzy Fingerprints Vault) 기법은 추가적인 정보없이 변환된 도메인에서 자동으로 지문 정렬을 수행하여 안전한 지문 템플릿 보호 및 인증이 가능하다는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.33-38
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• 2008

Biometric based authentication can provide strong security guarantee about the identity of users. However, security of biometric data is particularly important as compromise of the data will be permanent. Cancelable biometrics stores a non - invertible transformed version of the biometric data. Thus, even if the storage is compromised, the biometric data remains safe. Cancelable biometrics also provide a higher level of privacy by allowing many templates for the same biometric data and hence non-linkability of user's data stored in different databases. In this paper, we proposed the fast polynomial reconstruction algorithm for fuzzy fingerprint vault. The proposed method needs (k+1) real points to reconstruct the polynomial of degree (k-1). It enhances the speed, however, by $300{\sim}1500$ times according to the degree of polynomial compared with the exhaust search.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.645-646
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• 2009

지문 템플릿(Fingerprint Template)을 보호하기 위해 암호학적 기법인 퍼지볼트(Fuzzy Vault)가 적용되었다. 퍼지볼트 기법은 지문으로 부터 추출되는 특징점을 은닉하기 위하여 지문 템플릿에 다수의 거짓 특징점을 "임의"로 삽입하는 방법이다. 그러나 최근 이러한 지문 퍼지볼트를 효과적으로 크래킹 할 수 있는 상관공격(Correlation Attack)에 관한 연구가 발표되었는데, 이것은 동일한 지문으로 부터 생성되는 두 개의 지문 템플릿을 획득함으로써 진짜와 거짓 특징점을 쉽게 구별하는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 상관공격에 강인도록 지문 퍼지볼트를 생성하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 특징점의 각도 정보를 이용하여 거짓선분(Chaff Line)을 생성한 후 "규칙적"으로 거짓특징점을 삽입함으로써, 두 개 지문 템플릿을 획득하더라도 동일한 지문에 대해 삽입된 거짓 특징점의 위치와 각도가 유사하기 때문에 진짜와 거짓 특징점을 구별하기 어려워 상관공격을 피할 수 있다. 실험을 통하여 거짓 특징점을 규칙적으로 저장하는 방법을 적용함으로써 기존 방법의 인식 성능을 유지하면서, 상관 공격에 강인함을 확인하였다.