TY - GEN
T1 - Iris based authentication mechanism for e-Passports
AU - Abid, Mohamed
AU - Kanade, Sanjay
AU - Petrovska-Delacrétaz, Dijana
AU - Dorizzi, Bernadette
AU - Afifi, Hossam
PY - 2010/9/2
Y1 - 2010/9/2
N2 - E-Passports are widely issued all over the world, although they suffer from security flaws. Many guidelines were proposed to solve these security considerations, like the guideline of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the Extended Access Control (EAC), and other solutions for the third e-Passport generation. In this paper, an iris based authentication mechanism for e-Passport is proposed and validated. This mechanism is based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). The iris based cryptographic key regeneration scheme is used to obtain a stable input from biometric data which is used to generate the security parameters of the elliptic curve. Another important aspect of this work is that it is evaluated on a publicly available biometric database. The results show a good performance especially from a biometric point of view (False Acceptance Rate of 0.2% and False Rejection Rate of 3.6%) on a subset of the NIST-ICE database.
AB - E-Passports are widely issued all over the world, although they suffer from security flaws. Many guidelines were proposed to solve these security considerations, like the guideline of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the Extended Access Control (EAC), and other solutions for the third e-Passport generation. In this paper, an iris based authentication mechanism for e-Passport is proposed and validated. This mechanism is based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). The iris based cryptographic key regeneration scheme is used to obtain a stable input from biometric data which is used to generate the security parameters of the elliptic curve. Another important aspect of this work is that it is evaluated on a publicly available biometric database. The results show a good performance especially from a biometric point of view (False Acceptance Rate of 0.2% and False Rejection Rate of 3.6%) on a subset of the NIST-ICE database.
KW - Cancelable biometrics
KW - E-Passport
KW - Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
KW - Error correcting codes
KW - International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
KW - Iris biometrics
KW - Key regeneration
KW - RFID
U2 - 10.1109/IWSCN.2010.5497990
DO - 10.1109/IWSCN.2010.5497990
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77956093980
SN - 9781424469390
T3 - 2010 2nd International Workshop on Security and Communication Networks, IWSCN 2010
BT - 2010 2nd International Workshop on Security and Communication Networks, IWSCN 2010
T2 - 2010 2nd International Workshop on Security and Communication Networks, IWSCN 2010
Y2 - 26 May 2010 through 28 May 2010
ER -