Application-specific biometric templates
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1. A method for securing access to protected applications, the method comprising:
- receiving a predetermined biometric template;
transforming said predetermined biometric template to generate a transformed biometric template having a unique format corresponding to a particular biometric application, the transforming comprising at least one of altering the position of every bit of data of the biometric template using derangement permutations and exclusive-oring the data of the biometric template with a mask function;
storing said transformed biometric template in a storage;
receiving a first biometric template;
transforming said first biometric template using a first transforming function to create a first transformed biometric template, the first transformed biometric template having the unique format corresponding to the particular biometric application; and
comparing said first transformed biometric template with said stored transformed biometric template.
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Abstract
Disclosed are techniques for transforming a biometric template so that each application uses a unique template format. One transformed template cannot be successfully matched to a second template extracted from the same biologic entity unless the second template is transformed so that its format is identical to that of the first template. Thus a template generated in a format corresponding to application A could not be used to authenticate a user for application B because the enrollment database for application B would have a different format than the enrollment database for application A.
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1. A method for securing access to protected applications, the method comprising:
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receiving a predetermined biometric template;
transforming said predetermined biometric template to generate a transformed biometric template having a unique format corresponding to a particular biometric application, the transforming comprising at least one of altering the position of every bit of data of the biometric template using derangement permutations and exclusive-oring the data of the biometric template with a mask function;
storing said transformed biometric template in a storage;
receiving a first biometric template;
transforming said first biometric template using a first transforming function to create a first transformed biometric template, the first transformed biometric template having the unique format corresponding to the particular biometric application; and
comparing said first transformed biometric template with said stored transformed biometric template. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 36)
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19. A system for securing access to protected applications comprising:
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a receiver for receiving a biometric template;
computer-executable instructions for;
receiving a predetermined biometric template;
transforming said predetermined biometric template to generate a transformed biometric template having a unique format corresponding to a particular biometric application, the transforming comprising at least one of altering the position of every bit of data of the biometric template using derangement permutations and exclusive-oring the data of the biometric template with a mask function;
storing said transformed biometric template in a storage;
receiving a first biometric template;
transforming said first biometric template using a first transforming function to create a first transformed biometric template, the first transformed biometric template having the unique format corresponding to the particular biometric application; and
comparing said first transformed biometric template with said stored transformed biometric template; and
a database for storing said transformed biometric template templates. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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