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A Secure and Privacy Preserving Iris Biometric Authentication Scheme with Matrix Transformation

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Biometric authentication is the use of unique human features to provide secure, reliable, friendly and convenient access to an environment or a computer installation. However, the use of biometrics as a means of authentication exposes legitimate users to security threats, privacy attacks and loss of identity. This paper proposes and implements a novel non-invertible transformation technique known as matrix transformation. Matrix transformation is a simple but powerful and effective method to achieve template revocability and prevent the recovery of original biometric data from secured templates. The approach provides a high level template security and user privacy. It is also robust against replay attack, cross matching and loss of identity.

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    Abayomi Jegede, Nur Izura Udzir, Azizol Abdullah & Ramlan Mahmod

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Jegede, A., Udzir, N.I., Abdullah, A., Mahmod, R. (2017). A Secure and Privacy Preserving Iris Biometric Authentication Scheme with Matrix Transformation. In: Choi, D., Guilley, S. (eds) Information Security Applications. WISA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10144. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56549-1_29

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