Securing Revocable Iris and Retinal Templates Using Combined User and Soft Biometric Based Password Hardened Multimodal Fuzzy Vault

Biometric systems are subjected to a variety of attacks. Stored biometric template attack is very severe compared to all other attacks. Providing security to biometric templates is an important issue in building a reliable personal identification system. Multi biometric systems are more resistive towards spoof attacks compared to unibiometric counterpart. Soft biometric are ancillary information about a person. This paper provides security and revocability to iris and retinal templates using combined user and soft biometric based password hardened multimodal biometric fuzzy vault. Password hardening provides security and revocability to biometric templates. Eye biometrics namely iris and retina have certain merits compared to fingerprint. Iris and retina capturing cameras can be mounted on a single device to improve user convenience.