no code implementations • 4 Feb 2006 • Yevgeniy Dodis, Rafail Ostrovsky, Leonid Reyzin, Adam Smith
A "secure sketch" produces public information about its input w that does not reveal w, and yet allows exact recovery of w given another value that is close to w. Thus, it can be used to reliably reproduce error-prone biometric inputs without incurring the security risk inherent in storing them.
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