期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
电子版ISSN：2231-2803
出版年度：2016
卷号：36
期号：1
页码：43-47
DOI：10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V36P108
出版社：Seventh Sense Research Group
摘要：Defending information against some intruders is a most demanding task in our computer world. Now a day’s information sharing and transferring are the common task performed over the network. In this paper we are defending the biometric templates from the malicious users. Biometric templates may be modified by attacker. Here we are using steganography techniques and biocryptography techniques as a multilevel authentication. Biometric is a method of identifying a person or verifying the identity of a person based on physiological or behavioral characteristics such as knuckles, skin, nail etc. The biometric system offers a greater security when compared to the password authentication or token based system. Biometric templates are acquired from the subject as a raw biometric data and we are extracting a feature from the data and compare the feature set against the template stored in the database in order to identify the person. And at the same time it is possible for the intruders to identify or access the data from the database where the data is stored as the biometric data. So defending the data is the major concern for that we are using the following techniques such as steganography and biocryptography. In biocryptography we can defend the important data from the hackers. Cryptography provides the means to further protect Biometric Templates at these critical junctures. It is the science of scrambling information and data which is transit across a network medium, and then descrambling it at the receiving end into a decipherable format. That way, if the scrambled information and data were to be intercepted by a third party, there is not much which can be done unless they possess the keys for descrambling the information. These concepts of scrambling and descrambling can be very easily applied to biometrics. This is known as “Bio Cryptography”. The next level of protection is by using the steganography which is one of the major techniques used for secret communication. “Steganography is an art of sending secret messages over public channel in such a way that only the intended recipient knows about the existence of the message” and it is a skill as science of hiding a top secret communication in a cover media such as image, text, signal or sound in such manner that nobody, apart from the deliberate recipient knows the existence of the data In other words, the biometric templates are protected by scrambling and descrambling keys while they are stored in the database, or in movement across a network.
