Encryption of Biometric Traits to Avoid Privacy Attacks

In the modern digital world, biometric systems are a significant part of personal identification and access control. The use of sensitive biometric data such as iris and facial features raises huge privacy concerns because of the possibilities of data breaches and misuse. Therefore, this project focuses on the enhancement of the security of multimodal biometric systems through encryption mechanisms. The idea is to generate a strong biometric key based on features produced from iris and face biometric systems through advanced machine learning techniques. The features are then employed to produce a strong biometric key capable of encrypting the secret value using the AES algorithm. AES is a widely adopted symmetric encryption algorithm that ensures high efficiency in its software implementation and seamless processing capabilities of image data. This provides not only the reinforcement of authentication but also maintains confidentiality of biometric characteristics and mitigates the risks of privacy attacks and unauthorized access. Thus, this multimodal biometric encryption improves reliability, robustness, and the resistance power of the system against potential attacks, making it a promising step forward in the realm of secure biometric authenticationsystems.