Architectures for biometric match-on-token solutions

Abstract

Biometric Authentication Systems face several problems related to the security and the users' potential rejection. Most of those problems comes from the high sensitivity of biometric data (whose manipulation could damage the system security or the users' privacy), and the feeling of governmental control when central databases are used. The authors have been working in providing solutions to these problems, by promoting the idea of using tokens that could perform the biometric verification internally, not allowing the template to travel through communication lines, nor the memory of an open terminal. To achieve this, a general architecture, based on a set of requirements previously defined, will be outlined. At the end, directives for the implementation of such an architecture using smartcards and USB-Tokens will be given. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.