An effective scheme for biometric cryptosystems

Abstract

Compared with traditional cryptography, biometric cryptosystems provide more convenient and safe protection of keys. In this paper, an effective scheme for biometric cryptosystems based on the intersections of hyper-plane and hashed discrete space is proposed. Only genuine feature vectors, which are located on the hyper-plane, find the correct solution. Several tricks are provided to ensure the security of proposed scheme. Experiments have shown that our method achieved approximate performance compared with one of the latest methods based on fuzzy vault. However, our method is less complex than fuzzy vault based methods.