A multifactor biometric authentication for the cloud

Abstract

The omnipresence of high-speed Internet has paved a promising future for cloud computing. Cloud computing technology deals with providing software, platform, and infrastructure as a service to the clients. This ultimately leads to transmission of the client’s confidential data in the cloud. This factor is the motivation to provide a secure biometric authentication framework to the cloud. This paper proposes a multifactor biometric authentication system for cloud computing environment. The biometric features adopted here are palm vein and fingerprint. The idea is to handle the biometric data in a secure fashion by storing the palm vein biometric data in multicomponent smart cards and fingerprint data in the central database of the cloud security server. In order to enhance security, the part of biometric data matching process is performed on the card with Match-on-Card technology and data never leave the smart card.