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Partial DCT-based cancelable biometric authentication with security and privacy preservation for IoT applications

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Biometric authentication is being vastly used in identity verification for several IoT applications, nowadays. The security and privacy of the biometrics templates used in the authentication process becomes mandatory as it contains rich personal information of the user. Cancelable Biometric System (CBS) is a template securing approach using repeated distortions/transformations at feature/signal level. It is an effective template securing approach which provides non-invertibility, revocability and diversity to the users enrolled with the cancelable template database. The cancelable template database containing cancelable biometric templates of the users is typically stored in a trusted standalone server. To meet the growing demand of IoT applications, cloud computing with provision to store and process even large database, is being largely deployed. However, the security and privacy of the data stored in the cloud is uncertain. In this paper, we have proposed a novel partial DCT-based CBS with privacy and security preservation for providing authentication services in various IoT applications. We have also devised techniques for session key agreement, data encryption and data integrity in the proposed framework to solve the issues of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) during cancelable template enrolment and authentication. The experimental results and analysis prove that proposed approach performs user authentication with high accuracy and minimal overhead while preserving security and privacy of sensitive cancelable biometric templates.

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The authors would like to thank the Management and Staff of Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus. The first author is supported by Visvesvaraya PHD scheme an initiative of Digital India Corporation under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.

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Punithavathi, P., Geetha, S. Partial DCT-based cancelable biometric authentication with security and privacy preservation for IoT applications. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 25487–25514 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-7617-1

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