2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Asymmetric Remote Biometric Authentication using Zero-Knowledge Proof
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18300022
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Computer system/Network
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| Research Institution | Tokai University |
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Principal Investigator |
KIKUCHI Hiroaki Tokai University, 情報通信学部, 教授 (20266365)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NISHIGAKI Masakatsu 静岡大学, 情報学部, 准教授 (20283335)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
OGATA Wakaha 東京工業大学, イノベーションマネジメント研究科, 准教授 (90275313)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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| Keywords | セキュアネットワーク |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study, a new method for secure remote biometric authentication preventing the vulnerability of compromised biometrics is presented. The idea is based on a public-key cryptographical protocol, referred as Zero-knowledge Proof, which allows a user to prove that she has surely a valid biometric data without revealing the data. Hence, the scheme is free from the risk of disclosure of biometric data. Even if a malicious administrator has a privilege access to the private database, it is infeasible for him to learn the private template.
The estimation based on the experimental implementation shows that the private Euclidean distance scheme archives better accuracy in terms of false acceptance and rejection than the private cosine coloration scheme, but it requires about 5/2 NL overhead to evaluate N-dimension feature vectors consisting of L-bit integers.
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