Preimage Attack on BioHashing

Patrick Lacharme, Estelle Cherrier, Christophe Rosenberger

2013

Abstract

Biometric recognition is more and more employed in authentication and access control of various applications. Biometric data are strongly linked with the user and do not allow revocability nor diversity, without an adapted post-processing. Cancelable biometrics, including the very popular algorithm BioHashing, is used to cope with the underlying privacy and security issues. The principle is to transform a biometric template in a BioCode, in order to enhance user privacy and application security. These schemes are used for template protection of several biometric modalities, as fingerprints or face and the robustness is generally related to the hardness to recover the original biometric template by an impostor. In this paper, we propose to use genetic algorithms to approximate the original biometric feature and spoof the authentication system. We show through experimental results on fingerprints the efficiency of the proposed attack on the BioHashing algorithm, by approximating the original FingerCode, given the seed and the corresponding BioCode.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lacharme P., Cherrier E. and Rosenberger C. (2013). Preimage Attack on BioHashing . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-73-0, pages 363-370. DOI: 10.5220/0004524103630370

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt13,
author={Patrick Lacharme and Estelle Cherrier and Christophe Rosenberger},
title={Preimage Attack on BioHashing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={363-370},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004524103630370},
isbn={978-989-8565-73-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013)
TI - Preimage Attack on BioHashing
SN - 978-989-8565-73-0
AU - Lacharme P.
AU - Cherrier E.
AU - Rosenberger C.
PY - 2013
SP - 363
EP - 370
DO - 10.5220/0004524103630370