A Treatise on the use of Finger Print for a Biometric Authentication System

Abstract

In this paper an attempt has been made to present a scheme that combines Biometrics, in the form of finger prints with passwords to answer some key authentication questions such as who one is, and what does one know. In addition nonces and time-stamps have been used to prevent replay attacks. The method proposed here is a two-factor authentication algorithm that can be used between a client and a server or in general a service requester and a service provider. The method is resistant to man-in-the-meet attacks and also does not depend upon third-party authentication agents.