TY - GEN
T1 - An analysis of minutiae matching strength
AU - Ratha, Nalini K.
AU - Connell, Jonathan H.
AU - Bolle, Ruud M.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - In recent years there has been exponential growth in the use of biometrics for user authentication applications because biometrics-based authentication offers several advantages over knowledge and possession-based methods such as password/PIN-based systems. However, it is important that biometrics-based authentication systems be designed to withstand different sources of attacks on the system when employed in security-critical applications. This is even more important for unattended remote applications such as e-commerce. In this paper we outline the potential security holes in a biometrics-based authentication scheme, quantify the numerical strength of one method of fingerprint matching, then discuss how to combat some of the remaining weaknesses.
AB - In recent years there has been exponential growth in the use of biometrics for user authentication applications because biometrics-based authentication offers several advantages over knowledge and possession-based methods such as password/PIN-based systems. However, it is important that biometrics-based authentication systems be designed to withstand different sources of attacks on the system when employed in security-critical applications. This is even more important for unattended remote applications such as e-commerce. In this paper we outline the potential security holes in a biometrics-based authentication scheme, quantify the numerical strength of one method of fingerprint matching, then discuss how to combat some of the remaining weaknesses.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/82055208335
U2 - 10.1007/3-540-45344-x_32
DO - 10.1007/3-540-45344-x_32
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 3540422161
SN - 9783540422167
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 223
EP - 228
BT - Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication - Third International Conference, AVBPA 2001, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Audio- and Video- Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA 2001
Y2 - 6 June 2001 through 8 June 2001
ER -