REMOTE PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING BIOMETRICS

• US 20120032781A1
• Filed: 08/04/2011
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: MOON, Dae-Sung, YOO, Jang-Hee, KIM, Jeong-Nyeo, KANG, Byung-Jun, CHUNG, Yun-Su
• Application Number:
  US13/198,226
• Publication Number:
  US 20120032781A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.82
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/34 involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/72 in cryptographic circuits

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a remote personal authentication system and method using biometrics. The remote personal authentication method using biometrics includes receiving a biometric information of a user remotely detected by a biometric information collection device; decrypting, in a hardware security module (HSM) of the user, the received biometric information and biometric information stored in the HSM; and performing personal authentication for the user by comparing the decrypted biometric information with each other in the HSM.

Claims

1. A remote personal authentication method using biometrics, comprising:

receiving a biometric information of a user remotely detected by a biometric information collection device;

decrypting, in a hardware security module (HSM) of the user, the received biometric information and biometric information stored in the HSM; and

performing personal authentication for the user by comparing the decrypted biometric information with each other in the HSM.

2. The remote personal authentication method using biometrics as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting the stored biometric information to the biometric information collection device; and

receiving results of personal authentication generated by comparing the transmitted biometric information with the detected biometric information at the biometric information collection device.

3. The remote personal authentication method using biometrics as set forth in claim 1, wherein the receiving includes receiving the biometric information encrypted by the biometric information collection device.

4. The remote personal authentication method using biometrics as set forth in claim 1, wherein the receiving includes receiving features of the biometric information detected by the biometric information collection device.

5. The remote personal authentication method using biometrics as set forth in claim 1, further comprising transmitting results of the personal authentication acquired by the performing.

6. The remote personal authentication method using biometrics as set forth in claim 1, further comprising outputting information about whether the detected biometric information has been successfully received and/or results of the personal authentication.

7. The remote personal authentication method using biometrics as set forth in claim 1, wherein the stored biometric information and the detected biometric information comprises at least one of the user'"'"'s face, iris, gait, shape of the ear, and voice.

8. A hardware security module (HSM), comprising:

a storage unit for storing a confidential information and a biometric information of a user;

an electronic signature processing unit for creating and verifying the electronic signature of the user using the confidential information;

a communication unit for receiving a biometric information of the user detected by a biometric information collection device at a remote location; and

a control unit for performing personal authentication for the user by comparing the biometric information received from the communication unit with the stored biometric information.

9. The HSM as set forth in claim 8, wherein the storage unit stores the biometric information including information about at least one of the user'"'"'s face, iris, gait, shape of an ear, and voice.

10. The HSM as set forth in claim 8, wherein the communication unit transmits results of the personal authentication of the control unit to the biometric information collection device.

11. The HSM as set forth in claim 8, wherein the communication unit comprises one communication module of Wi-Fi, IrDA, RFID, ZigBee, and Bluetooth.

12. The HSM as set forth in claim 8, further comprising an output unit for outputting information about whether the biometric information has been successfully received and results of the personal authentication.

13. The HSM as set forth in claim 8, further comprising a security processing unit for encrypting the biometric information transmitted through the communication unit and decrypting the biometric information received from the communication unit.

14. A biometric information collection device, comprising:

a biometric information detection unit for remotely collecting a biometric information of a user;

a communication unit for receiving an encrypted biometric information from a hardware security module (HSM) of the user; and

a control unit for performing personal authentication for the user by comparing a decrypted biometric information of the encrypted biometric information with the collected biometric information.

15. The biometric information collection device as set forth in claim 14, wherein the biometric information detection unit comprises:

an image detecting module for detecting at least one of the user'"'"'s face, iris, gait, shape of an ear, or shape of a hand and converting it into an image; and

a voice detecting module for detecting the user'"'"'s voice.

16. The biometric information collection device as set forth in claim 14, wherein:

the biometric information detection unit detects features of the collected biometric information, and

the communication unit transmits the collected biometric information or the features of the collected biometric information to the HSM.

17. The biometric information collection device as set forth in claim 14, wherein the control unit controls the communication unit so that the communication unit transmits results of the personal authentication for the user to the HSM.

18. The biometric information collection device as set forth in claim 14, further comprising an output unit for outputting at least one of the collected biometric information, features of the collected biometric information, results of transmission and reception of information, and authentication results based on the collected biometric information and the decrypted biometric information.

19. The biometric information collection device as set forth in claim 14, further comprising a security processing unit for encrypting the biometric information transmitted through the communication unit and decrypting the detected biometric information and the encrypted biometric information.

20. The biometric information collection device as set forth in claim 14, wherein the control unit transmits the biometric information detected by the biometric information detection unit to a server, and requests the server to search for user information.