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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2005
Yao-jen Chang, Taipei, TW;
Tsu-han Chen, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Wen-de Zhang, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Chutung, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
The present invention provides a biometrics-based cryptographic key generation system and method. A user-dependent distinguishable feature transform unit provides a feature transformation for each authentic user, which receives N-dimensional biometric features and performs a feature transformation to produce M-dimensional feature signals, such that the transformed feature signals of the authentic user are compact in the transformed feature space while those of other users presumed as imposters are either diverse or far away from those of the authentic user. A stable key generation unit receives the transformed feature signals to produce a cryptographic key based on bit information respectively provided by the M-dimensional feature signals, wherein the length of the bit information provided by the feature signal of each dimension is proportional to the degree of distinguishability in the dimension.