A Secure Mobile Voting System Using Fingerprint

Biometrics technology aims at utilizing major and distinctive characteristics such as behavioral or biological, for the sake of positively indentifying people. With the help of a combination of hardware and specific identifying sets of rules, a basic human attribute, automated biometric recognition mimics to distinguish and categorize other people as individual and unique. But the challenges surrounding biometrics are great as well.

During the identification phase, the user puts the finger on the same sensor, generating a new fingerprint image or template called query print. Minutiae points are carried out from the query print, and the matcher module compares the set of query minutia with the stored minutia templates or image in the enrollment database to find the number of similar minutia points. Because of variations present in finger placement and pressure applied to the sensor, the minutia points take out from the template and query fingerprints must be lined up, or submitted before matching. After line up the fingerprints, the matcher decides the number of pairs of matching minutiae-two minutiae points that have similar location and directions. The system decides the user's identity by comparing the match score to a

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Biometrics are important to not only information systems, but to information security as a subject. Today, most information is kept secure via ID cards or secret information, such as a PIN, password, pattern, etc., the downside to this type of security is the lack of a failsafe (Ashok, Shivashankar and Mudiraj)! What would happen if an ID card was lost? Or a PIN, password or pattern was leaked to individuals who were not on a “need to know” basis”? This is where the importance of biometrics comes into play.

The solutions presented in the report have an edge over different models. The reason is that, once an attacker obtains access to a unique finger impression template, he can claim to be a validated client. Yet,

When a live finger is placed on the scanner at the time of authentication, the decryption process needs to be initialized. With a slit of micorseconds the fingerprint image is analyzed . The RSA key generation algorithm is performed on the fingerprint image captured and the current private key generated is crossed checked with the encrypted fingerprint images existing(Fingerprint template) if their private key matches. If the current private key generate matches witht the private key of any of the fingerprint templates, that template is decrypted by the RSA decryption algorithm witht the help of the private key. After which the M3gle fingerprint matching algorithm is used to perform further authentication of the user [8]. Below is the RSA algorithm code used for the decryption:

The final main biometric technology used is fingerprint recognition. This is definitely the most widely used biometric technology. This type of biometric has been used for many, many years. Because of this, fingerprint recognition has been known as the most primary and accurate identification method used to identify a person. The modern fingerprint recognition is all done electronically. There are two main ways of analyzing fingerprints electronically. The first plots points on the ridges of a person’s fingers that enable the computer to compare to different fingerprints. The second method uses patterns of a fingerprint

“Fingerprint recognition is one of the divorce inference using the impressions made by the minute ridge formations or patterns found on the fingertips. No two people have exactly the same arrangement of the ridge patterns, and the remaining patterns of any one individual unchanged. Fingerprints infallible provide a means of personal identification. Other personal characteristics may change, but not fingerprints”. (1)

However, there has a problem challenge the biometric systems which use fingerprints to identify the status of people.The system is hard to

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has defended the formula used to distribute the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits for the ongoing mass voter registration exercise. The commission on Friday sent a press release to the media seeking to give a clarification on concerns raised by sections of the public on the ongoing exercise.

Fundamental right to vote or simply voting in elections forms the basis of democracy. Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is a simple electronic device used to record votes in place of ballot papers and boxes which were used earlier in conventional voting system .With significant U.S. federal funds we now have replaced the outdated punch-card and mechanical voting systems, and are adopting paperless electronic voting systems from a number of different vendors. My analysis shows that this voting system is below the minimal security standards. Threats of computer viruses or hacker-orchestrated attacks are most commonly mentioned as problems that could compromise an election and public confidence in electronic voting. Other potential technical problems or issues include power outages or malfunctions in Internet connectivity as well as the possibility of servers shutting down or crashing. The reliable recording and storage of votes is also an important consideration, I conclude that this voting system is unsuitable for use in a general election. Any paperless electronic voting system might suffer similar flaws, despite any “certification” it could have otherwise received. I suggest that the best solutions are voting systems having a “voter-verifiable audit trail, “where a computerized voting system might print a paper ballot that can be read and verified

You have seen biometric technology in the films Mission: Impossible and Gattaca. The technology has also graced the covers of many weekly news magazines. But many people, even though the technology has been widely talked about for the last half decade, are still surprisingly unaware of what biometrics are and why the technology is so important for computer security and personal identification.

Biometric authentication has been receiving extensive attention over the past decade with increasing demands in automated personal identification. Biometrics is to identify individuals using physiological or behavioral characteristics, such as finger-print, face, iris, retina, palm-print, etc. Among all the biometric techniques, fingerprint recognition is the most popular method and is successfully used in many applications.

Biometrics is used in many places and there is a bright future for them. Coca Cola has recently replaced time card system with hand scanning machines. Finger print scanners are being used in many states of the US. They have been used to trace social welfare fraud. An iris pattern identification system is being used in Cook County, Illinois to ensure that right people are released from jail. ATM machines have been installed with finger scanners to prevent theft and fraud in Indiana (Jain, 2005).

Abstract— Cloud computing has been envisioned as the next generation architecture of the IT enterprise due to its on demand self-service, ubiquitous network access, location-independent resource pooling , rapid resource elasticity and usage-based pricing . The fundamental aspect of cloud storage computing model is that data is being centralized or outsourced into the cloud without the burden of local hardware and software management thereby new and challenging threat on data arises. Fingerprint Authentication , a significant security element and popular biometric modality which is used extensively in several applications for person authentication, which provides high uniqueness and acceptable performance. In existing system the security of fingerprint data is not highly ensured . In this project A new approach of remote user fingerprint authentication scheme using the concept of Boundry Segmentation ,Spatial –Taxons , RGB Colour of Image Processing and Merkle Hash Tree has been proposed. In the data owners side, the