User-Centric Key Entropy: Study of Biometric Key Derivation Subject to Spoofing Attacks

Biometric data can be used as input for PKI key pair generation. The concept of not saving the private key is very appealing, but the implementation of such a system shouldn’t be rushed because it might prove less secure then current PKI infrastructure. One biometric characteristic can be easily spo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lavinia Mihaela Dinca, Gerhard Hancke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-02-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/2/70