Definition
Authentication: Process to verify the identity of a request to access confidential information or service. It confirms if the requester is authorized to access and if so then what the privilege is.
Biometrics: Biological characteristics of an individual that are unique to the person and don’t change significantly over time and environment.
Cryptography: Process a given message to a form that an unauthorized person cannot interpret but an authorized user can retrieve the secret message.
Security: Protection of information and system from unauthorized access, modification, or destruction.
Steganography: Process to hide confidential information inside another public information, including an image.
Introduction
Biometrics is the science of measurement and statistical analysis of an individual’s physical and behavioral characteristics (Das 2019). It has been observed that every human being has a set of unique biometric features, which can be utilized to identify the person....
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Islam, M.N. (2020). Biometrics. In: Shapiro, L., Maras, MH. (eds) Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_10-1
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