How Best to Bring Comfort to Cyber Criminals

Hitoshi Kokumai
2 min readNov 5, 2021

Another topic for today is “Passwordless made simple with user empowerment” https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/96431-passwordless-made-simple-with-user-empowerment

Imagine a world where quantum computing has made a quantum leap and destroyed the public-key infrastructure. Imagine what would happen in that world if the identity assurance by our own volition and memory has been eliminated by passwordless authentication schemes.

Do you see a paradise for good citizens? Or do you see a paradise for cyber criminals?

Our answer is here — “Quantum Computing and Password Authentication” https://aitechtrend.com/quantum-computing-and-password-authentication/

Key References

Biometrics is to Password what Back door is to Front door

Removal of Passwords and Its Security Effect

Negative Security Effect of Biometrics Deployed in Cyberspace

External Body Features Viewed as ‘What We Are’

Additional References

For Achieving Solid Digital Identity on Information Security Buzz (Mar/2021)

What We Know for Certain about Authentication Factors

Digital Identity for Global Citizens
Image-to-Code Conversion by Expanded Password System

Summary and Brief History — Expanded Password System

Proposition on How to Build Sustainable Digital Identity Platform

Account Recovery with Expanded Password System

History, Current Status and Future Scenarios of Expanded Password System

Availability-First Approach

Update: Questions and Answers — Expanded Password System and Related Issues

< Videos on YouTube>

Slide: Outline of Expanded Password System (3minutes 2seconds)

Digital Identity for Global Citizens (10minutes — narrated)

Demo: Simplified Operation on Smartphone for consumers (1m41s)

Demo: High-Security Operation on PC for managers (4m28s)

Demo: Simple capture and registration of pictures by users (1m26s)

Slide: Biometrics in Cyber Space — “below-one” factor authentication

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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.