A Secure Scheme of Biometric Key Generation from Biometric Features

Cryptographic key is the central problem in cryptographic techniques. The key based on password protection is not enough secure because of the low entropy in user chosen passwords that can be exploited to launch password-guessing attacks. And the length of cryptographic key generated from user's biometric features directly is limited. Differ from prior methods, a novel scheme of cryptographic key generation based on biometric features and secret sharing is proposed. Biometric feature vectors is transformed through orthogonal matrix, and mapped to integer spaces. Then, a steady integer vector is obtained, and can be utilized to bind with cryptographic key by Shamir's secret sharing scheme. This method may realize the security of key storing, and can produce the key of the arbitrary length.