Grant: Alliance Grants

With the growth in the use of mobile devices, people use their smartphones for different services such as social media, shopping or banking applications. However, they store their logins and personal and banking information on their phones. In addition, users exchange sometimes very sensitive data with remote servers. This poses a security problem (confidentiality and integrity of this data), and respect for the privacy of users. This is why secure user authentication and remote authentication play a crucial role in this ecosystem. To make the situation even more worrying, most biometric authentication systems store biometric templates on smartphones, making mobile devices a prime target for hackers. Because, if they access the device using different techniques (e.g., malware), they will have all the user's personal and financial information. This latter situation highlights the need to strengthen the security of biometric templates and find a solution to detect and prevent unauthorized access to device resources. The main objective of this research project is to design hyper-secure architectures and models based on biometric techniques, Blockchain technology, HSM security modules and sixth generation (6G) mobile technologies to strengthen data security stored and data in transit, while respecting the confidentiality of sensitive data and the protection of privacy. The expected results of this project include a new family of service architectures capable of supporting highly secure mobile payment systems, secure commercial transactions, and resource exchange environments ensuring digital trust.