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ECB4CI: an enhanced cancelable biometric system for securing critical infrastructures

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Physical access control is an indispensable component of a critical infrastructure. Traditional password-based methods for access control used in the critical infrastructure security systems have limitations. With the advance of new biometric recognition technologies, security control for critical infrastructures can be improved by the use of biometrics. In this paper, we propose an enhanced cancelable biometric system, which contains two layers, a core layer and an expendable layer, to provide reliable access control for critical infrastructures. The core layer applies random projection-based non-invertible transformation to the fingerprint feature set, so as to provide template protection and revocability. The expendable layer is used to protect the transformation key, which is the main weakness contributing to attacks via record multiplicity. This improvement enhances the overall system security, and undoubtedly, this extra security is an advantage over the existing cancelable biometric systems.

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This paper is supported by Early Career Grant Scheme of ECU of Australia through Project G1003411 and Defence Science and Technology Group (DST) of Australia through Project CERA 221.

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  1. Security Research Institute, School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, 6027, Australia

    Wencheng Yang, Guanglou Zheng, Junaid Chaudhry & Craig Valli

  2. School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, 3086, Australia

    Song Wang

  3. College of Security and Intelligence, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ, USA

    Junaid Chaudhry

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Yang, W., Wang, S., Zheng, G. et al. ECB4CI: an enhanced cancelable biometric system for securing critical infrastructures. J Supercomput 74, 4893–4909 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-018-2266-0

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