14 February 2022 Mitigating MasterPrint vulnerability by employing minutiae geometry
Mahesh Joshi, Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Somnath Dey
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Abstract

The biometric system accepts a fingerprint of an individual to authenticate, authorize, or identify a person. However, some devices with a small sensor use a partial fingerprint as input. Recent research has shown that partial fingerprints are not unique compared to the full fingerprint, leading to the MasterPrint vulnerability. A MasterPrint is a partial fingerprint identifying at least 4% distinct subjects enrolled with the database. An adversary exploits such MasterPrints for executing financial frauds, mounting a presentation attack, or criminal activities. Our work proposes minutiae geometry-based partial fingerprint identification method targeted to alleviate the MasterPrint vulnerability. The experiments comprise partial datasets created from five full-fingerprint benchmark datasets and six existing approaches to compare the results of the proposed method. The observations show that the proposed approach achieved up to 97% identification accuracy while generating merely 0.1% MasterPrints.

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Mahesh Joshi, Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, and Somnath Dey "Mitigating MasterPrint vulnerability by employing minutiae geometry," Journal of Electronic Imaging 31(1), 013026 (14 February 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.31.1.013026
Received: 24 September 2021; Accepted: 27 January 2022; Published: 14 February 2022
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KEYWORDS
Databases

Fingerprint recognition

Biometrics

Feature extraction

System identification

Sensors

Tolerancing

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