Attacks on biometric systems: a case study in fingerprints

Umut Uludag; Anil K. Jain

doi:10.1117/12.530907

22 June 2004 Attacks on biometric systems: a case study in fingerprints

Umut Uludag, Anil K. Jain

Proceedings Volume 5306, Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.530907
Event: Electronic Imaging 2004, 2004, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

In spite of numerous advantages of biometrics-based personal authentication systems over traditional security systems based on token or knowledge, they are vulnerable to attacks that can decrease their security considerably. In this paper, we analyze these attacks in the realm of a fingerprint biometric system. We propose an attack system that uses a hill climbing procedure to synthesize the target minutia templates and evaluate its feasibility with extensive experimental results conducted on a large fingerprint database. Several measures that can be utilized to decrease the probability of such attacks and their ramifications are also presented.

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Umut Uludag and Anil K. Jain "Attacks on biometric systems: a case study in fingerprints", Proc. SPIE 5306, Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VI, (22 June 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.530907

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