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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-discrete-mathematical-sciences-and-cryptography</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0065</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0529</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-1884</article-id>
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        <article-title>Novel approaches to biometric security using enhanced session keys and elliptic curve cryptography</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Gowda</surname>
            <given-names>V. Dankan</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, BMS Institute of Technology and Management, Bangalore, Karnataka, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Gite</surname>
            <given-names>Pratik</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Engineering, Palghar (East), St. John College of Engineering and Management, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Rahman</surname>
            <given-names>Mirzanur</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Information Technology, Gauhati University, Assam, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Kadam</surname>
            <given-names>Kirti Rahul</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Management, Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Management (Deemed to be University), Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Manivasagam</surname>
            <given-names>G.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of CS &amp; IT, Jain Deemed to be University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Prasad</surname>
            <given-names>K.D.V.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Research, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Hyderabad, Telangana, India</aff>
          <aff>Department of Research, Symbiosis International (Deemed to be University), Pune, Maharashtra, India</aff>
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      </contrib-group>
      <volume>27</volume>
      <issue>2-A</issue>
      <fpage>477</fpage>
      <lpage>488</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>06</day>
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2024</year>
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        <p>Biometric systems have taken the front seat as having core foundations in 21stcentury digital information technology, biometric systems hold a position therein or authentication processes. But the growing complexity of cyber threats requires greater security practices. This paper presents an innovative biometric security approach based on the combination of ECC and more advanced session keys. The goal is to strengthen biometric systems against sophisticated cyber threats ensuring fast and effective authentication methods. The proposed approach takes advantage of ECC’s strength in generating secure biometric data along with session keys dynamically to build a more resilient, yet flexible, security model. It is shown on the simulations that security metrics increase significantly in terms of resistance to common cryptographic attacks and data breaches without decreasing the system performance. This study describes not only the current vulnerabilities in biometric security systems towards more secure and reliable authentication systems by the convergence of biometric data to advanced cryptographic techniques.</p>
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        <kwd>Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)</kwd>
        <kwd>Enhanced session keys</kwd>
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        <kwd>Authentication systems</kwd>
        <kwd>Cryptographic attacks</kwd>
        <kwd>Data protection</kwd>
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