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Integrating Fingerprint Verification into the Smart Card-Based Healthcare Information System

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2009, Article number: 845893 (2009) Cite this article

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As VLSI technology has been improved, a smart card employing 32-bit processors has been released, and more personal information such as medical, financial data can be stored in the card. Thus, it becomes important to protect personal information stored in the card. Verification of the card holder's identity using a fingerprint has advantages over the present practices of Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) and passwords. However, the computational workload of fingerprint verification is much heavier than that of the typical PIN-based solution. In this paper, we consider three strategies to implement fingerprint verification in a smart card environment and how to distribute the modules of fingerprint verification between the smart card and the card reader. We first evaluate the number of instructions of each step of a typical fingerprint verification algorithm, and estimate the execution time of several cryptographic algorithms to guarantee the security/privacy of the fingerprint data transmitted in the smart card with the client-server environment. Based on the evaluation results, we analyze each scenario with respect to the security level and the real-time execution requirements in order to implement fingerprint verification in the smart card with the client-server environment.

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  1. Biometrics Technology Research Team, ETRI, Daejeon, 305-700, South Korea

    Daesung Moon

  2. Department of Computer and Information Science, Korea University, Jochiwon, Chungnam, 339-700, South Korea

    Yongwha Chung

  3. Department of Information Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, 501-759, South Korea

    Sung Bum Pan

  4. School of Games, Hongik University, Jochiwon, ChungNam, 339-701, South Korea

    Jin-Won Park

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Correspondence to Yongwha Chung.

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Moon, D., Chung, Y., Pan, S.B. et al. Integrating Fingerprint Verification into the Smart Card-Based Healthcare Information System. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2009, 845893 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/845893

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Keywords

  • Personal Information
  • Smart Card
  • Security Level
  • Healthcare Information
  • Cryptographic Algorithm