Theft-Resistant Credential

Hitoshi Kokumai
2 min readJul 31, 2022

Preventing Credential Theft: 3 Critical Steps

https://flare.systems/learn/resources/blog/preventing-credential-theft-3-critical-steps/

I owe this article to Newsletter of Alexandre BLANC Cyber Security, in which it reads “You know credentials are the key to the kingdom, may they be password, passwordless hype BS, it’s still an authentication mean, allowing to open a session, which session can be stolen”

I would like to shift the focus from ‘preventing credential theft’ to ‘theft-resistant credential’

What we would like to suggest citizens to DO RIGHT NOW is — Try this Hybrid Text Password as a stopgap measure as discussed in “Quick-Fix Solution when EPS is Not Available” https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_official-british-army-twitter-and-youtube-activity-6951354977126600704-uHyr

What we would like to suggest citizens to WAIT FOR is — Mnemonic Gateways leak-proof password manager powered by their own non-volatile episodic memory as outlined in “How Can We Easily Manage the Hard-to-Manage Password?“ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_democracy-privacy-ethics-activity-6939846217426169856-d0T7

Well, there is what we would like to suggest citizens NOT to DO. It is — Fall into a pitfall of taking Loss of Security for Gain of Security as examined in “Cognitive Pitfall over Password Removal” https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_passwordless-vs-mfa-whats-the-difference-activity-6958297761570058240-FW27

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

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

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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.