Face Database Protection Using Encryption Technique

Biometric is being extensively used for security applications. The major concern with biometric features is, there are limited features for a single person. Compromise of these features will lead to compromising of security and it will be impossible to replace these features as they are unique to every person. For securing biometric database various methods have been proposed like cancelable biometric and biometric cryptosystem. The issues arising from these are matching template in transform domain, authenticity etc. To overcome this problem, encryption-based method is proposed for database present in the server. The transfer of database from server to terminal for authentication is done in encrypted domain along with storage. For authentication, the database is decrypted at the terminal side. The cipher output and security parameters shown in the paper verifies that the algorithm is successful in securing facial database.