Authentication of area fingerprint scanners
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Highlights：
• Area fingerprint scanners can be distinguished based on their scanner pattern.
• The pattern is their sufficiently unique, persistent, and unalterable characteristic.
• We propose a simple method to extract the pattern and compare it with another one.
• Tests on 22 scanners of the same model yielded estimated EERs in the order of 1e-7.
• The pattern enhances biometric security by authenticating the fingerprint scanner.
• The pattern can be used as an authenticator whereas the biometrics is an identifier.
• Other applications include contextual authentication and source of randomness.
摘要
•Area fingerprint scanners can be distinguished based on their scanner pattern.•The pattern is their sufficiently unique, persistent, and unalterable characteristic.•We propose a simple method to extract the pattern and compare it with another one.•Tests on 22 scanners of the same model yielded estimated EERs in the order of 1e-7.•The pattern enhances biometric security by authenticating the fingerprint scanner.•The pattern can be used as an authenticator whereas the biometrics is an identifier.•Other applications include contextual authentication and source of randomness.
论文关键词：Authentication,Biometric,Fingerprint,Scanner,Sensor,Pattern,Noise.
论文评审过程：Received 15 November 2016, Revised 24 June 2018, Accepted 1 March 2019, Available online 2 March 2019, Version of Record 30 May 2019.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2019.03.001
