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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 6(10), p. 1193-1206, 2015

DOI: 10.1109/tifs.2015.2402593

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A New Biocryptosystem-Oriented Security Analysis Framework and Implementation of Multibiometric Cryptosystems Based on Decision Level Fusion

Journal article published in 2015 by Cai Li, Cai Li, Jiankun Hu ORCID, Josef Pieprzyk, Willy Susilo
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Biometric cryptosystems provide an innovative solution for cryptographic key generation, encryption as well as biometric template protection. Besides high authentication accuracy, a good biometric cryptosystem is expected to protect biometric templates effectively, which requires that helper data does not reveal significant information about the templates. Previous works predominantly follow an appropriate entropy definition to measure the security of biometric cryptosystems. In this paper, we point out limitations of entropy-based security analysis and propose a new security analysis framework that combines information-theoretic approach with computational security. In addition, we construct a fingerprint-based multibiometric cryptosystem (MBC) using decision level fusion. Hash functions are employed in our construction to further protect each single biometric trait. The experimental results and security analysis demonstrate that the proposed MBC provides stronger security and better authentication accuracy compared with a cryptosystem based on single biometric.