Development of Personal Authentication Techniques Using Fingerprint Matching Embedded in Smart Cards

摘要

Smart cards and biometrics can be effectively combined for personal authentication over an open network. The combination is achieved as two-step authentication in which the smart cards is authenticated based on a public key infrastructure, and the card holder is authenticated using the template stored in the smart card based on the biometric data. The biometric verification has to be executed in the card for security purposes.