Controllable identifier measurements for private authentication with secret keys

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Contributors

  • Onur Günlü - , Technical University of Munich (Author)
  • Kittipong Kittichokechai - , Technical University of Berlin, Ericsson AB (Author)
  • Rafael F. Schaefer - , Technical University of Berlin (Author)
  • Giuseppe Caire - , Technical University of Berlin (Author)

Abstract

The problem of secret-key based authentication under a privacy constraint on the source sequence is considered. The identifier measurements during authentication are assumed to be controllable via a cost-constrained "action" sequence. Single-letter characterizations of the optimal trade-off among the secret-key rate, storage rate, privacy-leakage rate, and action cost are given for the four problems where noisy or noiseless measurements of the source are enrolled to generate or embed secret keys. The results are relevant for several user-authentication scenarios, including physical and biometric authentications with multiple measurements. Our results include, as special cases, new results for secret-key generation and embedding with action-dependent side information without any privacy constraint on the enrolled source sequence.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1945-1959
Number of pages15
JournalIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Volume13
Issue number8
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2018
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-1702-9075/work/165878281

Keywords

Keywords

  • Action dependent privacy, Hidden source, Information theoretic security, Private authentication