Secured biometric template

User authentication and personal privacy is an important aspect of reliable information system. Biometric recognition with cryptography provides a reliable solution for user authentication and identity management. This paper proposes a unique way of creating biometric template using palm-dorsa vein pattern and enhancing its security level by encrypting with elliptic hashing, called biometric encrypted template. The advantage of using elliptic hashing is that, biometric template is easily encrypted and retrieval of original image from the encrypted template is impossible. Crypto analysis suggests that the proposed algorithm provides Confidentiality, authentication, integrity.