Biocryptosystems for Template Protection: A Survey of Fuzzy Vault

Abstract

Biometric recognition systems provide security to systems by preventing unauthorized access. In recent times, research proved that unprotected biometric systems can be invaded by hackers. A spoofed biometric security can be a great risk as a compromised biometric template can be lost forever. It can also be used to gain unauthorized access into systems. There is the need to protect biometric template from hackers and possible misuse. This study presents various template protection schemes in literature. In addition, this paper reviewed fuzzy vault biocryptosystem template protection scheme by comparing some fuzzy vault schemes in literature based on their False acceptance rates (FAR) and Genuine acceptance rates (GAR) with different degrees of polynomial. The study also reported past studies with the lowest and the highest FAR as 0.00% and 0.87% respectively while the lowest and the highest GAR stand at 72% and 99% respectively.