Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Secure biometric authentication with de-duplication on distributed cloud storage Subject The topic of the resource Artificial Intelligence; Cloud computing; Computer Networks and Communications; Computer Vision; Distributed and Parallel Computing; Dynamic speed scaling algorithm; Edge computing; EIoT; Energy; IoT; Security and Privacy Description An account of the resource Cloud computing is one of the evolving fields of technology, which allows storage, access of data, programs, and their execution over the internet with offering a variety of information related services. With cloud information services, it is essential for information to be saved securely and to be distributed safely across numerous users. Cloud information storage has suffered from issues related to information integrity, data security, and information access by unauthenticated users. The distribution and storage of data among several users are highly scalable and cost-efficient but results in data redundancy and security issues. In this article, a biometric authentication scheme is proposed for the requested users to give access permission in a cloud-distributed environment and, at the same time, alleviate data redundancy. To achieve this, a cryptographic technique is used by service providers to generate the bio-key for authentication, which will be accessible only to authenticated users. A Gabor filter with distributed security and encryption using XOR operations is used to generate the proposed bio-key (biometric generated key) and avoid data deduplication in the cloud, ensuring avoidance of data redundancy and security. The proposed method is compared with existing algorithms, such as convergent encryption (CE), leakage resilient (LR), randomized convergent encryption (RCE), secure de-duplication scheme (SDS), to evaluate the de-duplication performance. Our comparative analysis shows that our proposed scheme results in smaller computation and communication costs than existing schemes. 2021 M et al. All Rights Reserved. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vinoth K.M.; Venkatachalam K.; Prabu P.; Almutairi A.; Abouhawwash M. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived PeerJ Computer Science, Vol-7, pp. 1-20. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available PeerJ Inc. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.7717/PEERJ-CS.569" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.7717/PEERJ-CS.569</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85112859669&amp;doi=10.7717%2FPEERJ-CS.569&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=3346d10a0987add986da7ccd3627309b" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85112859669&amp;doi=10.7717%2fPEERJ-CS.569&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=3346d10a0987add986da7ccd3627309b</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Open Access; Gold Open Access; Green Open Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 23765992 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Vinoth K.M., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, University College of Engineering, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India; Venkatachalam K., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India; Prabu P., Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Almutairi A., School of Mathematics, Unaizah College of Sciences and Arts, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia; Abouhawwash M., Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States