An Improved Privacy-Preserving Biometric Identification Scheme in Cloud Computing

Kai HUANG  Ming XU  Shaojing FU  Yuchuan LUO  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E99-A   No.10   pp.1891-1894
Publication Date: 2016/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E99.A.1891
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Cryptography and Information Security
Keyword: 
improved scheme,  privacy-preserving,  biometric identification,  cloud computing,  

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Summary: 
In a previous work [1], Wang et al. proposed a privacy-preserving outsourcing scheme for biometric identification in cloud computing, namely CloudBI. The author claimed that it can resist against various known attacks. However, there exist serious security flaws in their scheme, and it can be completely broken through a small number of constructed identification requests. In this letter, we modify the encryption scheme and propose an improved version of the privacy-preserving biometric identification design which can resist such attack and can provide a much higher level of security.