Achieving Efficient and Privacy-preserving Biometric Identification in Cloud Computing

Biometrics identification has been used in a growing number of fields in recent years, since it is more secure, classified and convenient. With the development of cloud computing, database systems are able to upload large amounts of biometric data to cloud server for storage and identification to save local memory and improve computational efficiency. However, this involves potential privacy concerns because of the introduction of third-party platforms. In this paper, we achieve computational and communication efficiency in biometric identification, while preserving the privacy of data. Specifically, the database system firstly encrypts all biometric data and query data. Then, it sends the ciphertext to a cloud server to carry out matching tasks. Finally, the cloud server returns the index of final matches to the system so that it can check whether the biometric vector is legal or not. Detailed security analysis indicates that the proposed scheme can resist powerful attacks. Beyond that, Experiments show that the scheme is more efficient in computation and communication than stat of art biometric identification schemes.