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BPKEM: A biometric-based private key encryption and management framework for blockchain

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  • Hao Cai
  • Han Li
  • Jianlong Xu
  • Linfeng Li
  • Yue Zhang

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The fundamental technology behind bitcoin, known as blockchain, has been studied and used in a variety of industries especially in finance. The security of blockchain is extremely important as it will affects the assets of the clients as well as it is the lifeline feature of the entire system that needs to be guaranteed. Currently, there is a lack of a methodical approach to guarantee the security and dependability of the private key during its whole life. Furthermore, there is no quick, easy, or secure way to create the encryption key. A biometric-based private key encryption and management framework (BPKEM) for blockchain is proposed not only to solve the private key lifecycle manag- ement problem, but also it maintains compatibility with existing blockchain systems. For the problem of private key encryption, a biometric-based stable key generation method is proposed. By using the relative invariance between facial and fingerprint feature points, this measure can convert feature points into stable and distinguishable descriptors, then using a reusable fuzzy extractor to create a stable key. The correct- ness and efficiency of the newly proposed biometric-based blockchain encryption tech- nique in this paper has been validated in the experiments.

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  • Hao Cai & Han Li & Jianlong Xu & Linfeng Li & Yue Zhang, 2024. "BPKEM: A biometric-based private key encryption and management framework for blockchain," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(3), pages 1-28, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0286087
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0286087
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