Open AccessRSA Cryptographic Key Generation Using Fingerprint Minutiae
Author(s) -
Mofeed Turky Rashid,
Huda Ameer Zaki
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
al-mağallaẗ al-ʿirāqiyyaẗ li-l-ḥāsibāt wa-al-maʿlūmāt/iraqi journal for computers and informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2520-4912
pISSN - 2313-190X
DOI - 10.25195/ijci.v41i1.101
Subject(s) - minutiae , computer science , cryptography , fingerprint (computing) , password , biometrics , key (lock) , fingerprint recognition , computer security , key generation
Human users find difficult to remember long cryptographic keys. Therefore, researchers, for a long time period, have beeninvestigating ways to use biometric features of the user rather than memorable password or passphrase, in an attempt to produce tough andunrepeatable cryptographic keys and to construct the key unpredictable to a hacker who is deficient of important knowledge about theuser's biometrics. In this paper, generating the strong bio-crypt key based on fingerprint minutiae is presented. At first, the minutiae pointsare extracted from the fingerprint image based on image processing algorithms. Then, the extracted fingerprint minutiae are used forgenerating a 1024 bit prime numbers that used in RSA cypher algorithm to generate 2048 cryptographic key.