Double watermarking‐based biometric access control for radio frequency identification card

Abstract

The integration of data privacy and security into radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, particularly into RFID tags, has become one of the most attractive research areas. A crucial challenge in RFID technology research lies in providing an efficient protection for systems against information theft and illegitimate access. This article proposes a secure solution based on an RFID card for physical biometric access-control applications. This is done by integrating two biometric modalities, namely face and fingerprint which are secured via a double watermarking technique. The suggested approach is ensured by two levels of watermarking. At the first level, the wavelet packet decomposition watermarking algorithm is used to insert features from the fingerprint (minutiae) in the face image of an authorized person. At the second level, the same watermarking algorithm is employed to insert the fingerprint watermark in the face features extracted by Gabor filters from the previously watermarked face image (at the first level). The obtained secured watermarked biometric data are then integrated in a 1-kB high frequency proximity RFID card. This combination of both RFID technology and the double watermarking technique provides a biometric control access framework.Compared with the state-of-the-art frameworks, the proposed one ensures a good compromise between a reduced computational complexity and a high level of data security while maintaining a small space of storage and a low cost compared to those of the marketed products. K E Y W O R D Sauthentication framework, biometrics, control access, double watermarking, radio frequency identification, security

A Systematic Literature Review on Authentication and Threat Challenges on RFID Based NFC Applications

“…The post-quantum McEliece cryptosystem has been carried out for remote education [20]. Watermarking and deep learning techniques canbe implemented for facial and fingerprint recognition [17,27]. Hashing algorithms are also exploited where the MD5 algorithm in [25] and SHA3-224 with Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic in [34] were used to increase integrity.…”

“…Hashing algorithms are also exploited where the MD5 algorithm in [25] and SHA3-224 with Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic in [34] were used to increase integrity. Meanwhile, we can mention the IDEA cipher [35], Present [42], the modified Mickey 2.0 [21], and the multi-factor authentication schemes [12,27], among other alternative solutions that might replace the commonly used ones.…”

Access Control Based on Ciphertext Attribute Authentication and Threshold Policy for the Internet of Things

“…A security solution based on RFID card-based physical biometric access control is proposed in [22]. This scheme combines RFID technology and dual watermark technology to provide a biometric control access framework.…”

Comparative Study Based on De-Occlusion and Reconstruction of Face Images in Degraded Conditions

“…Compared to several biometric recognition modalities El Kissi Ghalleb and Amara [3]; Mhenni et al [4]; Rzouga Haddada and Essoukri Ben Amara [5] that expose the weaknesses for authentication, face modality Ouannes et al [6] is the main natural biometric measure that makes it efficient with a high level of security. Therefore, over the last few years, facial recognition systems have gained wide attention from many corporations and government organizations, notably for surveillance purposes [7].…”