THRIVE: threshold homomorphic encryption based secure and privacy preserving biometric verification system

Karabat, Çağatay and Kiraz, Mehmet Sabir and Erdoğan, Hakan and Savaş, Erkay (2015) THRIVE: threshold homomorphic encryption based secure and privacy preserving biometric verification system. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing . ISSN 1687-6172 (Print) 1687-6180 (Online)

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new biometric verification and template protection system which we call THRIVE. The system includes novel enrollment and authentication protocols based on threshold homomorphic encryption where a private key is shared between a user and a verifier. In the THRIVE system, only encrypted binary biometric templates are stored in a database and verification is performed via homomorphically randomized templates, thus, original templates are never revealed during authentication. Due to the underlying threshold homomorphic encryption scheme, a malicious database owner cannot perform full decryption on encrypted templates of the users in the database. In addition, security of the THRIVE system is enhanced using a two-factor authentication scheme involving user's private key and biometric data. Using simulation-based techniques, the proposed system is proven secure in the malicious model. The proposed system is suitable for applications where the user does not want to reveal her biometrics to the verifier in plain form, but needs to prove her identity by using biometrics. The system can be used with any biometric modality where a feature extraction method yields a fixed size binary template and a query template is verified when its Hamming distance to the database template is less than a threshold. The overall connection time for the proposed THRIVE system is estimated to be 336 ms on average for 256-bit biometric templates on a desktop PC running with quad core 3.2 GHz CPUs at 10 Mbit/s up/down link connection speed. Consequently, the proposed system can be efficiently used in real-life applications.
Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Article Number: 71
Uncontrolled Keywords: Biometric; Security; Privacy; Cryptography; Homomorphic encryption; Malicious attacks
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences > Academic programs > Computer Science & Eng.
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences > Academic programs > Electronics
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Depositing User: Hakan Erdoğan
Date Deposited: 27 Nov 2015 15:14
Last Modified: 23 Aug 2019 10:16
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/27281

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