Permission Blockchain based Smart Contract Utilizing Biometric Authentication as a Service: A Future Trend

Abstract

Smart contracts are the triggered self executing contracts which are termed and conditioned among the trusted parties. Being independent of trusted third party, smart contract rely on blockchain and the underlying consensus submitted by participants for the security. Hyper ledger fabric provides peer-to-peer-network based distributed operating environment. This scenario highlights the need of identification of peer, more precisely on the `who the user is' rather than `what does the user possess'. This paper proposes an architecture of the integration of multimodal biometric authentication system incorporation with the permissioned blockchain based smart contract. Every peer has to be authenticated before getting involved in smart contract. Paper also informs about the surveyed ways of multimodal recognition which ensures the major concern of various applications like insurance settlement, market predictions and internet on things, etc. i.e. liveliness detection.