A Study on Image Encryption Using Key Matrix Generation from Biometric Mixed Fingerprint Image for Two Level Security

In recent Era, Security has been most important issue to be considered with different forward looking and preventing measures. Several cryptographic algorithms are developed for encryption and decryption using a secret key. The issue with this strategy is that user ought to recall the key or store the key in a database, which make the framework under danger. Once the put away key is bargained, at that point an attacker can get to the private information effectively. To maintain uniqueness of key, a biometric feature such as fingerprint can be used, whereas randomness can be induced using different combinations of fingerprints. In this paper, we propose a technique to generate the key matrix by extracting minutiae points from mixed fingerprints of the sender and receiver. This system contains four phases. One is Enrolment Phase, second is Authentication Phase, third is Key Generation phase and last is Cryptographic phase. For encryption of the original image using generated key matrix, we use Hill cipher.