RSA Cryptographic Key Generation Using Fingerprint Minutiae

Authors

  • Mofeed Rashid University of Basrah
  • Huda Zaki Shatt Al-arab College University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25195/ijci.v41i1.101

Keywords:

Biometrics, Cryptography, Fingerprint, RSA, Morphological Operation, Minutiae points.

Abstract

Human users find difficult to remember long cryptographic keys. Therefore, researchers, for a long time period, have been
investigating ways to use biometric features of the user rather than memorable password or passphrase, in an attempt to produce tough and
unrepeatable cryptographic keys and to construct the key unpredictable to a hacker who is deficient of important knowledge about the
user's biometrics. In this paper, generating the strong bio-crypt key based on fingerprint minutiae is presented. At first, the minutiae points
are extracted from the fingerprint image based on image processing algorithms. Then, the extracted fingerprint minutiae are used for
generating a 1024 bit prime numbers that used in RSA cypher algorithm to generate 2048 cryptographic key.

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Author Biographies

Mofeed Rashid, University of Basrah

Electrical Engineering Department

Huda Zaki, Shatt Al-arab College University

Computer Science Department

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Published

2014-12-31