Review on the authentication protocol used in UIDAI

With the advent of Digital India and UID initiatives, the government aims to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The idea behind is to use the massive amount of information to make government, corporate growth and expansion successful for distribution of services to the public for their convenience. Joining up public sector, data sources can make government more efficient, save money, identify fraud and help public bodies better serve their citizens. To maintain data, biometric information of all residents will contain details like ten figure prints and iris of each and every individual along with other usual details. A 12 digit unique number will be allotted to all irrespective of any classification based on caste, gender, religion and geography. These details and randomly generated unique number will be stored in the centralized database which is subsequently linked to the basic demographics and biometric information of each individual. This UID number can be used to provide authentication to the agencies providing services to the users. In this paper, we would like to review the authentication protocol being implemented and suggest few recommendations for its easier implementation.