Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Volume 4642/2007, 604-613, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74549-5_64

Biometric Fuzzy Extractors Made Practical: A Proposal Based on FingerCodes

Valérie Viet Triem Tong, Hervé Sibert, Jérémy Lecœur and Marc Girault

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Abstract

Recent techniques based on error-correction enable the derivation of a secret key for the (varying) measured biometric data. Such techniques are opening the way towards broader uses of biometrics for security, beyond identification. In this paper, we propose a method based on fingerprints to associate, and further retrieve, a committed value which can be used as a secret for security applications. Unlike previous work, this method uses a stable and ordered representation of biometric data, which makes it of practical use.
Most of the research work that this article stems from was carried out by the authors at France Telecom Research and Development in Caen (France).

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