Research Article
Privacy Preserving Fingerprint Authentication at the Cloud Server for eHealth Services
@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.162688, author={S Rajarajan and R Venkata Kausik and M Sree Charan and PLK. Priyadarsini}, title={Privacy Preserving Fingerprint Authentication at the Cloud Server for eHealth Services}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology}, volume={5}, number={18}, publisher={EAI}, journal_a={PHAT}, year={2019}, month={5}, keywords={Biometrics, Fingerprints, Privacy-preserving, Cancellable-biometrics, Cloud, Image feature extraction, SURF}, doi={10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.162688} }- S Rajarajan
R Venkata Kausik
M Sree Charan
PLK. Priyadarsini
Year: 2019
Privacy Preserving Fingerprint Authentication at the Cloud Server for eHealth Services
PHAT
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.162688
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Restricting entry and access to highly sensitive systems like e-Health services is vital to protect the privacy and confidentiality of customers. User authentication is implemented predominantly done using Bio-metric schemes. But there is a challenge in securely storing the fingerprint templates. Since fingerprints are permanent, fingerprints getting stolen will be a serious issue.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper is to design a scheme to carry out the fingerprint match at the cloud server that will not compromise the fingerprints.
METHODS: When users input their fingerprint, a unique key is generated and it is sent to the server for verification.
RESULTS: We evaluated our proposed scheme and ascertained that it generates unique Fingerprint Identification Number for different fingerprints and the false rejection rate of our proposed scheme is within acceptable limit.
CONCLUSION: The proposed scheme overcomes the security threats to the stored fingerprints of users.
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