FIDO and Biometrics

Hitoshi Kokumai
2 min readAug 31, 2022

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I recently mentioned that Expanded Password System powered by citizens’ non-volatile episodic memory is perfectly compatible with the device-based #FIDO-specified solutions for building a robust multi-factor authentication (*1)

Today let me refer to #biometrics which is said to play a big role for password-repelled (passwordless) FIDO-specified solutions.

Biometrics could play a good role in them if the objective of those solutions are to provide better availability and convenience, not good security (*2), where citizens are ready to risk their most sensitive privacy data for lowered identity security (*3).

*1: “FIDO and Expanded Password System” https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_democracy-privacy-ethics-activity-6968828060800339968-YbCm

*2: “Biometrics Unravelled | password-dependent password-killer” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/biometrics-unravelled-password-dependent-hitoshi-kokumai/

*3:“Risking Privacy Data to Protect Privacy Data?” https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_democracy-privacy-ethics-activity-6969498483825274880-Rf3J

Considering deployment of FIDO-specified solutions for solid security? — Then, it would be wise to not consider using biometrics products in the authentication schemes, irrespective of whether these solutions are to be enhanced by Expanded Password System or not.

Website — https://www.mnemonicidentitysolutions.com/

Digital identity blogs collected at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/collection-digital-identity-comments-hitoshi-kokumai-posted-kokumai/

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Hitoshi Kokumai
Hitoshi Kokumai

Written by Hitoshi Kokumai

Advocate of ‘Identity Assurance by Our Own Volition and Memory’, Inventor of Expanded Password System and Founder of Mnemonic Identity Solutions Limited in UK.

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