Abstract:
Biometric data are sensitive according to personal data regulations and ISO/IEC 24745. In a biometric recognition system, biometric data should be protected from their ge...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Biometric data are sensitive according to personal data regulations and ISO/IEC 24745. In a biometric recognition system, biometric data should be protected from their generation to their comparison. In this work, we combine postquantum homomorphic encryption using CRYSTALS-Kyber (the base post-quantum algorithm of the FIPS 203 standard for module-lattice-based key-encapsulation mechanism, recently approved by the NIST) with Garbled Circuits, which allow different parties to compute the result of an operation from private inputs. We propose a protected biometric authentication scheme in which homomorphic encryption with CRYSTALS-Kyber public-key encryption computes the difference between the reference and a query, and a Garbled Circuit (GC) performs the comparison with a threshold. Two GC frameworks, TinyGarble (based on Verilog) and TinyGarble2 (based on C++), are employed to design a privacy-preserving face authentication system with FaceNet embeddings. The two frameworks are compared in terms of design and computation costs. In any case, the authentication takes, approximately, 0.5 seconds.
Date of Conference: 25-27 September 2024
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 11 December 2024
ISBN Information:
Electronic ISSN: 1617-5468