Anti-forensic approach for password protection using fuzzy fingerprint vault

Some people may want that no one else can open their own document files like Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, and so on. To achieve this, they usually use the password. However, there are many commercial products that support password recovery, which show good performance. Fuzzy vault is a crypto-biometric algorithm proposed by Juels et al. It gives a promising solution to personal privacy and fingerprint template security problems. In this paper, we present an anti-forensic technique for hiding password using fuzzy fingerprint vault. The password can be recovered only by the user´s genuine fingerprint.