Novel Approach for E-passport Authentication using Elgamal Cryptosystem
Anurag Singh Tomar, Sumit Kumar, Sandip Kumar Chaurasiya, Vanshika Shrivastava · International Journal of Security and Its Applications · 2018
In the modern era, research in the area of biometric data protection and data transmission, security over a network has been reached to a new level.To increase the security at the airport, new generation passport has been introduced i.e.E-passport.This passport consists of a Radio Frequency Identification chip which stores all the information of visiting passenger as well as user's biometric information.This information used by the airport authority for authentication of that user.On the other hand network security is playing a major role in the society by providing the secure communication between the parties, and by telling a person's identification.Other area which is only concern about identity of a person is biometric field; this field is working on human's unique characteristics to provide authenticity.Same authentication concept has been used in the international airport by using passports.There are many techniques have been implemented to provide more security to E-passport.However existing techniques are facing some loopholes such as replay attack, side channel attack.To remove these problems we are using ElGamal algorithm in our work.Our technique uses the value of timestamp to rectify the replay attack and digital signature to remove side channel attack issue.For increasing the authenticity level in E-passport we are taking finger print from biometric traits.We are also using hash function to enhance the biometric template security in database.Overall, it proves that it is a better security mechanism in the case of E-passport.