A biometric-based authentication and anonymity scheme for digital rights management system

Abstract

Digital rights management (DRM) systems are access control technologies used to restrict the use, modification, and distribution of protected digital contents. The success of a DRM system relies heavily on a good user authentication mechanism, and user identity verification through biometric information check is a great idea in that the biological characteristics are unique to each user and that such a mechanism releases the user of the trouble of keeping the login info safe from being stolen or mistaken or forgotten. In this paper, we shall review and cryptanalyze the Jung et al.’s biometric-based authentication scheme. Then, we remedy their security weaknesses to develop our new biometric-based authentication scheme for DRM. Our correctness check, security analysis, and performance evaluation have proved the superiority of our new scheme over related schemes.