The problem of forgery detection has been well studied and the forged finger prints produces highly impacting results in the biometric based security systems. There are many algorithms discussed earlier to detect forged finger prints. However, they suffer to achieve higher performance in terms of security. In this paper, a region centric minutiae propagation measure (RCMPM) based approach. First, the finger print image is read and removes the noisy points by applying the multi level Gabor filters. The Gabor filter has been applied in multiple level which helps to remove the noise from finger print image. The enhanced image is converted into number of integral image. The integral images are generated by splitting the image into number of tiny images according to the size of window. From the integral image produced, the island, dot, enclosure, bifurcation features are extracted. Extracted features are framed as feature vector and used to estimate the RCMPM measure. Based on the RCMPM measure, the presence of forged finger print has been identified and the same has been used to identify the region which has been modified. The accuracy of forged print detection has been improved and reduces the false classification ratio.

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A fingerprint is one of the most vital Biometric traits used for Personal Identification. To identify and match the fingerprint accurately, it has to be enhanced efficiently. In this paper, an efficient fingerprint enhancement technique is adopted and compared with the existing methods. The proposed methodology consists of three Phases. In the first phase, the fingerprint is subjected to the de-noising process. After adding noise such as salt and pepper, Gaussian and speckle noise, the image is blurred. In the second phase, the fingerprint is filtered with Wiener filter and then de-blurred. In the third, the filtered image is further enhanced for more clarity. The paper emphasizes, the fingerprint preprocessing followed with the enhancement produces better quality image. The performance of the proposed methodology is compared and evaluated using two performances measures namely Peak-Signal-Noise –Ratio and Mean Squared Error using Matlab R2013a.

The world is moving forward in terms of internet connectivity. While this enhances connectivity and strengthens communication, it brings with it its shortcomings. The advent of internet went hand in hand with emergence of hackers. This made businesses vulnerable and prone to malicious attacks by various groups and organizations. The business, to safeguard the data of the clients and consumers had to fool proof their servers and data-centres, hence the need to enhance and tighten security and close various vulnerable points. Cryptography is a technique involving encryption of data and messages so that only the intended audience can decrypt and comprehend it. For enhanced security, a hybrid encryption technique along with integrity check (MD5 hashing) is used. The encryption technique of One Time Pad (OTP - symmetric) and Route cipher (trans- positional) are combined and used.