Self-authentication apparatus and method

US6185316A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Unisys Corporation · US

Inventor

• William J. Buffam · West Chester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 12, 1997
• Grant date: Feb 6, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 12, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L2209/805
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An apparatus, method, and computer program for providing authenticating indicia and verifying the image thereby. One particular embodiment is a biometric application such as a fingerprint-based authentication system. The apparatus includes an image receiver for receiving the original image with true image point, a false image point generator providing false image points, and a transient template generator that selectively combines the true image points and the false image points. The apparatus can also constrain false image points to be non-coinciding plausible impostors of the true image points. The apparatus can include a claimant image receiver, a transient template receiver and a comparator for comparing the claimant image points with the template image points and producing an authentication signal. The method can employ a hashing technique to produce an encoding key from the non-coincident plausible impostor false image points, and preselected encryption techniques to produce ciphertext from plaintext with the encoding key. The method can include extracting claimant image points from template image points and iteratively constructing candidate decoding keys from the post-extra…