The wide deployment of biometric systems over the last few years has motivated an increased amount of research on both vulnerabilities ofbiometric schemes to software attacks and the development of appropriate countermeasures. The focus is not limited any more to decreasing error rates or verification time, but it is slowly moving towards the analysis of the security and privacy granted by biometric systems. The works summarized in this chapter have shown that even the biometric characteristics considered the most secure due to its inherent stochastic nature, such as the iris, are vulnerable to a non-negligible number of external attacks. In an attempt to reduce such vulnerabilities, some countermeasures have been proposed.
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