Paper Info
Title
Secure cloud-based biometric authentication utilising smart devices for electronic transactions
Abstract
The release of the latest iPhone device by Apple, named the iPhone 5s which incorporates a fingerprint-based biometric scanner, was met with a lot of criticism from the security and privacy community. It was soon demonstrated that the biometric reader on this new iPhone is just as vulnerable to spoofing attacks as devised by researchers such as Matsumoto et al. 2002. It is an excepted fact that making use of biometrics for effective security during the identification and authentication process is not recommended Woodward and Orleans, 2004. People leave latent biometric prints of their fingerprints on everything they touch. Biometric technology is vexed with this problem - a biometric characteristic is not essentially covert, as people deposit their biometric characteristics in various ways in the environment they interact with. This paper proposes an approach to allow a person to use a smart device such as the iPhone 5s, for secure biometric authentication over a networked environment for secure electronic transactions. The paper illustrates that a smart device can be considered as a 'smart token', to address the security concerns associated with biometric technology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1504/IJESDF.2014.060170
IJESDF
Keywords
DocType
Volume
biometrics, iPhone 5, cloud, security, authentication, secure electronic transaction, spoof attack, hacking, smart token
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1751-911X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bobby L. Tait113.12