ASSOCIATING PRIVATE KEYS IN CRYPTOGRAPHY WITH USER GENERATED BIOMETRICS

Abstract

The need for information security and privacy has increased in today’s times. Since extremely useful data and files are stored in an organization server system and more personal information are being shared over WWW, the requirement for providing security and allowing only the authorized user is becoming absolutely necessary. To achieve this purpose, biometric authentication is used in several applications and it is gaining more attention in the field of research. Several biometrics like iris, retina, fingerprint, etc are used to provide security to the information or key. The cryptographic key generation from biometrics is used generally to secure the system. The storage and security of biometric templates and cryptographic keys are of major importance. The flexibility and effectiveness of the cryptographic key generation methods make it useful for combining it with the biometric features. In the present world security is one the major concerns and there is requirement for research to be carried out to deal with cryptographic key generation schemes based on biometrics.