Identity Assurance – Sufficient and Necessary Conditions
Identity Assurance It is not easy to define the 'sufficient condition' for describing a set of processes used to establish that a natural person is real, unique, and identifiable; criminals…
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Hitoshi Kokumai, President, Mnemonic Security, Inc. Hitoshi is the inventor of Expanded Password System that enables people to make use of episodic image memories for intuitive and secure identity authentication. He has kept raising the issue of wrong usage of biometrics with passwords and the false sense of security it brings for 16 years.
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Identity Assurance It is not easy to define the 'sufficient condition' for describing a set of processes used to establish that a natural person is real, unique, and identifiable; criminals…
Enhance Security of Digital Identity Introduction The subject of this article is a fragile digital identity built with a weak password, which makes a grave choke point of the cyber…
Future Scenarios of Expanded Password System Passwords are so hard to manage that some people are urging the removal of passwords from digital identity altogether. What would happen, then, if the…
Caveats about ‘Password’ Continued from Part 1... Sometimes the word ‘Password’ is narrowly interpreted as ‘remembered text password’ and sometimes it’s taken broadly as ‘whatever we remember for authentication’. We…
Four Puzzling Issues of Identity Authentication - Takeaways from Consumer Identity World USA 2018 - Introduction The so-called password-less authentication, if implemented literally, would lead us to a world where…
Identity Assurance We believe that the reliable identity assurance (See part 1) must be built on three prerequisite principles as follows. Volition of the User – with Self-Determination, Identity authentication…
In an earlier article we discussed what technology can displace the password. The proposition of Expanded Password System (EPS) that we advocate is now acknowledged as a ‘Draft Proposal’ for…
The Future Password Many people shout that the password is dead or should be killed dead. The password could be killed, however, only when there is an alternative to the password.…