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Biometrics are one of the most privacy-sensitive data. Ubiquitous authentication systems with a focus on privacy favor decentralized approaches as they reduce potential attack vectors, both on a technical and organizational level. The gold…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Philipp Hofer , Michael Roland , Philipp Schwarz , René Mayrhofer

Privacy-enhancing technologies are technologies that implement fundamental data protection principles. With respect to biometric recognition, different types of privacy-enhancing technologies have been introduced for protecting stored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Pietro Melzi , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Christoph Busch

Biometric data contains distinctive human traits such as facial features or gait patterns. The use of biometric data permits an individuation so exact that the data is utilized effectively in identification and authentication systems. But…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Simon Hanisch , Julian Todt , Jose Patino , Nicholas Evans , Thorsten Strufe

Biometric systems strive to balance security and usability. The use of multi-biometric systems combining multiple biometric modalities is usually recommended for high-security applications. However, the presentation of multiple biometric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Florian Bayer , Christian Rathgeb

Personal identification and authentication is very crucial in the current scenario. Biometrics plays an important role in this area. Biometric based authentication has proved superior compared to traditional password based authentication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-02-19 V. S. Meenakshi , G. Padmavathi

Biometric matching involves storing and processing sensitive user information. Maintaining the privacy of this data is thus a major challenge, and homomorphic encryption offers a possible solution. We propose a privacy-preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Gaëtan Pradel , Chris Mitchell

Biometrics authentication has become increasingly popular due to its security and convenience; however, traditional biometrics are becoming less desirable in scenarios such as new mobile devices, Virtual Reality, and Smart Vehicles. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Huashan Chen , Yifan Xu , Yue Feng , Ming Jian , Feng Liu , Pengfei Hu , Kebin Peng , Sen He , Zi Wang

This work aims to show the applicability, and how, of privacy by design approach to biometric systems and the benefit of using formal methods to this end. Starting from a general framework that has been introduced at STM in 2014, that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Julien Bringer , Herve Chabanne , Daniel Le Metayer , Roch Lescuyer

Biometrical authentication systems are often presented as the best and simplest way to reach higher security levels. But a deeper analysis shows that several risks are hidden and the service provider adopting those system has to carefully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-02-07 Alfredo Esposito

As nowadays most web application requests originate from mobile devices, authentication of mobile users is essential in terms of security considerations. To this end, recent approaches rely on machine learning techniques to analyze various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 David Monschein , Oliver P. Waldhorst

The Metaverse is a virtual world, an immersive experience, a new human-computer interaction, built upon various advanced technologies. How to protect Metaverse personal information and virtual properties is also facing new challenges, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Hui Zhong , Chenpei Huang , Xinyue Zhang , Miao Pan

Biometric authentication relies on physiological or behavioral traits that are inherent to a user, making them difficult to lose, forge or forget. Biometric data with a temporal component enable the following authentication protocol: recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Daniel Reijsbergen , Eyasu Getahun Chekole , Howard Halim , Jianying Zhou

In recent years the amount of secure information being stored on mobile devices has grown exponentially. However, current security schemas for mobile devices such as physiological biometrics and passwords are not secure enough to protect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Rushit Dave , Naeem Seliya , Laura Pryor , Mounika Vanamala , Evelyn Sowells , Jacob mallet

We propose a biometric identification system where the chosen- and generated-secret keys are used simultaneously, and investigate its fundamental limits from information-theoretic perspectives. The system consists of two phases: enrollment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Vamoua Yachongka , Hideki Yagi

Biometric data is pervasively captured and analyzed. Using modern machine learning approaches, identity and attribute inferences attacks have proven high accuracy. Anonymizations aim to mitigate such disclosures by modifying data in a way…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Julian Todt , Simon Hanisch , Thorsten Strufe

The lack of standard input interfaces in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems presents a challenge in securing such infrastructures. To tackle this challenge, we introduce a novel behavioral biometric system based on naturally occurring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Klaudia Krawiecka , Simon Birnbach , Simon Eberz , Ivan Martinovic

The recent rapid advancements in both sensing and machine learning technologies have given rise to the universal collection and utilization of people's biometrics, such as fingerprints, voices, retina/facial scans, or gait/motion/gestures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Chun-Fu Chen , Bill Moriarty , Shaohan Hu , Sean Moran , Marco Pistoia , Vincenzo Piuri , Pierangela Samarati

Security systems demand continuous, cryptograph- ically robust identity verification without requiring subjects to carry physical tokens, smart cards, or dedicated hardware authenticators. This paper presents BIDO (Biometric Identity…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Aditya Mithra , Sibi Chakkaravarthy S , Srinivas Kankanala

Smartphones are now frequently used by end-users as the portals to cloud-based services, and smartphones are easily stolen or co-opted by an attacker. Beyond the initial log-in mechanism, it is highly desirable to re-authenticate end-users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Wei-Han Lee , Ruby Lee

Current authentication methods on the Web have serious weaknesses. First, services heavily rely on the traditional password paradigm, which diminishes the end-users' security and usability. Second, the lack of attribute-based authentication…