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).