Secure Authentication Using Biometric Data

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Secure Authentication Using Biometric Data

• Andrew Ackerman
• Professor Ostrovsky

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Background

• Secure Authentication Using Biometric Data
• By Xavier Boyen, Yevgeniy Dodis, Jonathan Katz,
  Rafail Ostrovsky, Adam Smith
• Trying to implement design
• Interested in Cryptography

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The Plan

• Using Biometric Data in a Cryptographic protocol
• Using Fingerprints
• Goal
• Use fingerprint reader to read in data
• Use algorithm to overcome randomness
• Use readout as secret in a cryptographic protocol

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Possible End States

• Low Knowledge of Fingerprints
• Assumptions made by paper might not fit
• Possible end Goals
• Build the system and test it
• If fingerprints arent hamming distance, try to
  come up with algorithm to make them so
• Come up with new way of analyzing fingerprints
• Modify the protocol in paper to work with
  fingerprint distribution (if not hamming).

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Checkpoints

• 3 Quarter Project
• Projected Quarter Goals
• Understand of Fingerprints and Recognition
  Techniques
• Software Prototype (if possible)
• Add Encryption Protocol (if possible)
• First Goal
• Understand Fingerprint Reader
• Understand Fingerprint Recognition Techniques