Paper 2009/545 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2009/545 ↗
Fuzzy extractors for continuous distributions
Abstract
We show that there is a direct relation between the maximum length of the keys extracted from biometric data and the error rates of the biometric system. The length of the bio-key depends on the amount of distinguishing information that can be extracted from the source data. This information can be used a-priori to evaluate the potential of the biometric data in the context of a specific cryptographic application. We model the biometric data more naturally as a continuous distribution and we give a new definition for fuzzy extractors that works better for this type of data.
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- Foundations
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2009-11-10: last updated
- 2009-11-10: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2009/545
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2009/545,
author = {Ileana Buhan and Jeroen Doumen and Pieter Hartel},
title = {Fuzzy extractors for continuous distributions},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2009/545},
year = {2009},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/545}
}