Title :
Design of a Random Number Generator from Fingerprint
Author :
Ying, Liu ; Shu, Wang ; Jing, Yue ; Xiao, Liang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Southwest Pet. Univ., Chengdu, China
Abstract :
Security of a cryptographic system depends much on the randomness of random number used in the system. In this paper, a true random number generator based on the data of fingerprint (FPTRNG) is designed which extracts the random information from image data of fingerprint to generate random number. The random number generated by the generator is tested using the statistical test suite for random and pseudorandom number generators of NIST. Test result shows that the random data generated by this random number generator has perfect randomness. In fingerprint-based information security system, FPTRNG insures higher level of security.
Keywords :
cryptography; fingerprint identification; random number generation; cryptographic system security; fingerprint-based information security system; image data; pseudorandom number generators; random information; statistical test suite; Authentication; Cryptography; Fingerprint recognition; Generators; Gray-scale; Image matching; Pixel; FPTRNG; fingerprint; random number generator; randomness testing;
Conference_Titel :
Computational and Information Sciences (ICCIS), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8814-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4270-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICCIS.2010.74
