Secure Fingerprint Authentication System for Electronic Examination Using Enhanced Advance Encryption Standard

Abstract

The emergence of biometric technology has provided a more secure approach to tackle the inherent deficiencies in the traditional authentication methods. As technology advanced, data intrusion became common and cheap attack can be carried out on stored data, like electronic examination scenario. This data intrusion and attack renders the information insecure and prone to intruders, hence, candidates can be impersonated without the fingerprint authentication system detecting the fraud. In this work, a secured fingerprint authentication system was designed using enhanced Advanced Encryption Standard for the administration of electronic examination. This was achieved by designing a prototype of the model and evaluating the performance of the prototype system using False Matching Rate, (FMR), False Non Matching Rate (FNMR) and Average Matching Time (AMT) performance metrics. The result obtained shows that at a scanner sensitivity rate of 0.8000, there is a certainty of the same FMR and FNMR (0.0064). This implies that about 6 out of every 1000 impostors attempts would be falsely accepted and same number genuine attempts would be falsely rejected. The large scale implementation of the developed prototype could be used to curb the activities of malicious candidate and improve the integrity of result awarding institution through validation of candidates during electronic–examination