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Biometric Authentication

Authentication through human characteristics

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This chapter focuses on the biometric authentication process which helps to prevent unauthorized access to computing resources. This chapter focuses on the biometric authentication process which helps to prevent unauthorized access to computing resources. First, biometric authentication steps are discussed, and then the performance of each biometric modality is illustrated. Next sections provide details of physiological and behavioral biometrics along with the available applications where these authentication techniques are in wide used. The last section of the chapter discusses different known attacks of biometric systems along with possible remedies for each of them.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA

    Dipankar Dasgupta, Arunava Roy & Abhijit Nag

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Appendices

Review Questions

Descriptive Questions

Q1: State four reasons to choose biometric-based authentication system.

Q2: Describe the taxonomy of biometric traits.

Q3: Difference between physiological and behavioral biometrics.

Q4: Describe the biometric authentication process.

Q5: What are different performance metrics used for biometric authentication? What is the most dominant error rate in biometrics?

Q6: Describe a few applications that use biometric-based authentication.

Q7: What are the drawbacks of a biometric system? Describe any two of them.

Q8: What are the possible attack points of a biometric authentication system? Illustrate with diagram.

Q9: What is liveness? Describe a process of liveness detection mechanism for biometric systems.

Q10: Distinguish between the following:

  1. (a)

    Behavioral and Physiological biometric

  2. (b)

    Soft biometrics and actual biometric

  3. (c)

    Liveness detection and watermarking technique

  4. (d)

    Unimodal biometric and multimodal biometric.

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1:

A company is looking into adding biometric scanners to their building for added security. Which option would NOT be a good idea?

  1. A.

    Facial recognition

  2. B.

    Weight recognition

  3. C.

    Gait recognition

  4. D.

    None of the above

Question 2:

Which of the following does not use behavioral characteristics of users for authentication?

  1. A.

    Voice

  2. B.

    Signature

  3. C.

    Veins

  4. D.

    Keystrokes

Question 3:

Jason is the type of person who does not like to give out his personal information and is overly suspicious of other people. What would be the best authentication type for Jason?

  1. A.

    Cognitive-based Authentication

  2. B.

    Token-based Authentication

  3. C.

    Biometric-based Authentication

  4. D.

    Any of the above

Question 4:

What is true for equal error rate?

  1. A.

    Lower the error rate, higher the accuracy

  2. B.

    Higher false positive make lower equal error rate.

  3. C.

    Lower false negative make higher equal error rate.

  4. D.

    None of the above.

Question 5:

In which of the following biometrics, will the most sophisticated camera be used to capture the biometrics?

  1. A.

    Face recognition

  2. B.

    Fingerprint recognition.

  3. C.

    Iris recognition

  4. D.

    Retina recognition

Question 6:

Which biometric has higher universality?

  1. A.

    Face recognition

  2. B.

    Hand Geometry

  3. C.

    Signature

  4. D.

    Voice

Question 7:

Which biometric has lower distinctiveness?

  1. A.

    Face

  2. B.

    Hand Geometry

  3. C.

    Iris

  4. D.

    Fingerprint

Question 8:

Which biometric has higher performance?

  1. A.

    Face

  2. B.

    Hand Geometry

  3. C.

    Iris

  4. D.

    Signature

Question 9:

Which biometric has higher acceptability?

  1. A.

    Face

  2. B.

    Fingerprint

  3. C.

    Iris

  4. D.

    Hand Geometry

Question 10:

Which biometric has lower circumvention?

  1. A.

    Iris

  2. B.

    Face

  3. C.

    Fingerprint

  4. D.

    Signature

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Dasgupta, D., Roy, A., Nag, A. (2017). Biometric Authentication. In: Advances in User Authentication. Infosys Science Foundation Series(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58808-7_2

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