Secure Data Retrieval System using Biometric Identification

Abstract

With the continuous dependence of using electronic media has drastically impacted our communications, with most of them currently taking place digitally. Users frequently have to logon to distant workstations, yet the adversarial Internet world can put users & service providers on risk. Biometric identification have grown in popularity in current times. With the rapid evolution of decentralized computation, data base owners are attempting to disperse the massive amount of biometric data as well as ID allocation to the cloud server in order to eliminate the high expenses of storage and computation. Biometric authentication technologies are becoming more popular as a method of verifying individual’s identity. Because of the many benefits that biometric credentials offer over traditional authenticating approaches, biometrics has become widely prominent as a way of verifying persons (e.g., password-based authentication). The inherent significant relation among the user with his/her biometric information is the main distinguishing aspect of such an authentication system. Yet, if the biometric feature is exploited, this very same favorable aspect creates major personal & safety problems. The major complex problems that must be considered while creating secure & privacy-preserving biometric authentication systems (PP-BAS) are discussed in this paper. Further we specifically outline the major challenges to secure & PP-BAS and provide recommendations for potential solutions in attempt to create S-PP BAS in cloud computing.