Title :
Privacy-Preserving Biometric System for Secure Fingerprint Authentication
Author :
Wang, Shuang ; Jiang, Xiaoqian ; Ohno-Machado, Lucila ; Cui, Lijuan ; Cheng, Samuel ; Xiong, Hongkai
Author_Institution :
Div. of Biomed. Inf., Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
Privacy is an important concern when biometrics are used in authentication systems for accessing Electronic Health Records (EHR) or other biomedical research data repositories involving human subjects. Biometrics of individuals deserve careful protection because they contain sensitive information closely related to personal privacy (e.g., personal health, ethnic group, etc.) and the leakage of such information can be used to re-identify individuals. More importantly, biometrics are unique and they are not easily revocable. Existing secure biometric systems prevent attackers from collecting unprotected biometrics in databases, however, they cannot guarantee confidentiality in probing and transmitting biometrics.
Keywords :
biometrics (access control); data privacy; fingerprint identification; medical information systems; EHR; authentication systems; biomedical research data repositories; electronic health records; individual re-identification; privacy-preserving biometric system; secure biometric systems; secure fingerprint authentication; unprotected biometrics; Authentication; Biometrics (access control); Cryptography; Databases; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Feature extraction;
Conference_Titel :
Healthcare Informatics, Imaging and Systems Biology (HISB), 2012 IEEE Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4803-4
DOI :
10.1109/HISB.2012.53
