This millennium is all about the copious data available across the globe and the important question of the user is that “Is our data safe and secured?” This paper deals with the generation of keys to be employed in encryption algorithms using our biometric system. The biometric used in this paper is the fingerprint and this concept is used to safeguard the voluminous user data transferred to and from the cloud storages. The process starts from acquiring the fingerprint from the user, preprocess the fingerprints, extract the important features, convert the features into bit matrix form, and generate the thousands of keys for a particular user from the biometric acquired from them. Most of the end user faces immense difficulty to recollect long and complex cryptographic keys. Hence, the research fraternities across the globe is exploring easier ways to use the biometric features of the end users instead of utilizing long passwords or passcode to discover tough cryptographic keys. The main objective of this paper is to integrate the fingerprint of the user to produce the security key to be used in cryptosystem especially in the cloud storage.

Biometric, Security, Cryptokeys, Fingerprints, Minutiae, Cloud security

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