Pashalidis, AndreasBrömme, ArslanBusch, Christoph2018-10-312018-10-312013978-3-88579-606-0https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/17692This paper describes a simple and generic attack against minutiae-based fingerprint authentication systems. The aim of the attack is to construct a fingerprint minutiae template, compliant to ISO/IEC standards, that matches a fixed but unknown target fingerprint. Our attack is expected to be most effective against systems that employ vicinity-based matching algorithms, i.e. systems that divide fingerprints into multiple regions and then compute similarity over these regions. The effectiveness of our attack is experimentally demonstrated against the recently proposed `Protected Minutiae Cylinder Code' (PMCC) scheme.enText/Conference Paper1617-5468