A Strong Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Fingerprint Authentication via Clustering

With the advancement of cloud technology, the storage and computing overhead in large-scale biometric authentication is mitigated by outsourcing data to the cloud. Since biometric features serve as a unique identifier bound to each individual, transmitting them directly to the cloud may bring about serious privacy disclosure risks. To guarantee users' biometric features, there are many solutions have been proposed. However, most of them neglect to protect identity security. In light of the challenges, this paper proposes a strong privacy-preserving fingerprint authentication via clustering. Besides safeguarding fingerprint features, the scheme also blurs the identities of users to enable anonymity of identity. Meanwhile, the authentication efficiency of the proposed scheme is improved by vector processing of fingerprints and fast retrieval of clustered identities. Furthermore, a dual-server matching architecture effectively reduces the communication overhead of the service provider. The security analysis and experimental results indicate that the proposed scheme provides strong privacy preservation while maintaining high efficiency.