Negatively Effective Authenticator
Taken up today is this report — “Could biometrics bridge the financial exclusion gap?” https://www.biometricupdate.com/202112/could-biometrics-bridge-the-financial-exclusion-gap
This report is typically one of the numerous biometrics articles written on the assumption that biometrics contributes to identity security, if not so much as had been claimed.
It’s no surprise for a number of people to make such assumptions so credulously; it would not be easy for most people to suspect that there can be an authentication factor that does not contribute to identity security.
However, there exists an ‘authenticator’ indeed that negatively contributes to identity security in cyberspace, say, destroys the identity security that has hitherto been provided by a password-only authentication — that’s ‘probabilistic biometrics deployed with a deterministic default password’.
Glancing over the following posts, you will quickly realize what we mean -
‘In Series vs In Parallel’ and ‘in 2-Layer vs in 2-Entrance’
Beware of Pseudo-2 Factor 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
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
