We describe a simple and novel cryptographic construction that we refer to as a fuzzy vault. A player Alice may place a secret value κ in a fuzzy vault and “lock” it using a set A of elements from some public universe U. If Bob tries to “unlock” the vault using a set B of similar length, he

cryptography and biometrics are merged to achieve high security and user convenience at the same time. In this paper, we explore the realization of a previously proposed cryptographic construct, called fuzzy vault, with the fingerprint minutiae data. This construct aims to secure critical data (e.g., secret

In this work we place some of the traditional biometrics work on fingerprint verification via the fuzzy vault scheme within a cryptographic framework. We show that the breaking of a fuzzy vault leads to decoding of Reed-Solomon codes from random errors, which has been proposed as a hard problem

Abstract: The fuzzy vault is an error tolerant authentication method that ensures the privacy of the stored reference data. Several publications have proposed the application of the fuzzy vault to fingerprints, but the results of subsequent analyses indicate that a single finger does not contain

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User privacy and template security are major concerns in the use of biometric systems. These are serious concerns based on the fact that once compromised, biometric traits can not be canceled or reissued. The Fuzzy Vault scheme has emerged as a promising method to alleviate the template security

Blend of cryptography and biometrics results an emerging architecture known as Crypto-biometrics which produces high level security. Fuzzy vault is a cryptographic construction used to store iris biometric templates which are binded by a random key extracted from same iris textures. Though

Abstract--This paper describes a secure fingerprint verification system based on the fuzzy vault scheme, where the sensitive biometric template is not stored, but a transformed version. We propose an adaptive alignment technique to reach the most reliable reference point, and a methodology

Because of the randomness of biometric features, traditional methods cannot perform well in the encryption of fingerprint template. The Fuzzy Vault construct is a biometric cryptosystem which can bind the fingerprint features with the secret key, and give reliable protection to both of them