Automatic secure fingerprint verification system based on fuzzy vault scheme

We construct an automatic secure fingerprint verification system based on the fuzzy vault scheme to address a major security hole currently existing in most biometric authentication systems. The construction of the fuzzy vault during the enrollment phase is automated by aligning the most reliable reference points between different templates, based on which the converted features are used to form the lock set. The size of the fuzzy vault, the degree of the underlying polynomial, as well as the number of templates needed for reaching the reliable reference point are investigated. This results in a high unlocking complexity for attackers with an acceptable unlocking accuracy for legal users.