Practical Digital Signature Generation Using Biometrics

  • Taekyoung Kwon
  • Jae-il Lee
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3043)

Abstract

It is desirable to generate a digital signature using biometrics but not practicable because of its inaccurate measuring and potential hill-climbing attacks, without using specific hardware devices that hold signature keys or biometric templates securely. We study a simple practical method for biometrics based digital signature generation without such restriction, by exploiting the existing tools in software in our proposed model where a general digital signature such as RSA can be applied without losing its security.

Keywords

Authentication digital signature biometrics public key infrastructure 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Taekyoung Kwon
    • 1
  • Jae-il Lee
    • 2
  1. 1.Sejong UniversitySeoulKorea
  2. 2.Korea Information Security AgencySeoulKorea

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