TY - GEN
T1 - On the generation of X.509v3 certificates with biometric information
AU - Martínez-Silva, Guillermo
AU - Rodríguez-Henríquez, Francisco
AU - Cruz-Cortés, Nareli
AU - Ertaul, Levent
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - We present the kernel implementation of a Mobile Certification Authority (MCA). Our MCA kernel is able to issue digital certificates fully-complying with the X.509v3 standard; it supports either RSA or ECDSA as a public key cryptosystem engine and; it can incorporate biometric-based user identification information (in the form of fingerprint recognition) to the digital certificate. The MCA application was entirely written in C++ and it was tested in an iPAQ Pocket PC h5550. Our experiments show that an ECDSA-based digital certificate using the NIST recommended 163K elliptic curve constitutes an ideal selection for wireless environments. Such certificate can be generated with a size of 1635 bytes, and 592 bytes when including (or not) biometric information, respectively.
AB - We present the kernel implementation of a Mobile Certification Authority (MCA). Our MCA kernel is able to issue digital certificates fully-complying with the X.509v3 standard; it supports either RSA or ECDSA as a public key cryptosystem engine and; it can incorporate biometric-based user identification information (in the form of fingerprint recognition) to the digital certificate. The MCA application was entirely written in C++ and it was tested in an iPAQ Pocket PC h5550. Our experiments show that an ECDSA-based digital certificate using the NIST recommended 163K elliptic curve constitutes an ideal selection for wireless environments. Such certificate can be generated with a size of 1635 bytes, and 592 bytes when including (or not) biometric information, respectively.
KW - Biometric authentication
KW - Mobile PKI
KW - X.509v3 digital certificates
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=62349090518&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:62349090518
SN - 1601320485
SN - 9781601320483
T3 - Proceedings of The 2007 International Conference on Security and Management, SAM'07
SP - 52
EP - 57
BT - Proceedings of The 2007 International Conference on Security and Management, SAM'07
T2 - 2007 International Conference on Security and Management, SAM'07
Y2 - 25 June 2007 through 28 June 2007
ER -