Yet another report on the drive to destroy security by removing passwords

Hitoshi Kokumai
2 min readDec 24, 2020

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How naïve security professionals can be? An answer is found in this report — “Passwords begone: GitHub will ban them next year for authenticatingGit operations” https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/17/github_bans_passwords/

Aren’t they actually offering a ‘solution’ that can be compared to the ATM that rejects PIN (numbers-only password) and dispenses cash upon the presentation of only a bank/credit card?

Ref: “Bizarre Theory of Password-lessAuthentication”

The theory is “A ground force can be easily defeated by air attack. Then, removing the ground force from our defense will make our defense securer”. Replace ‘ground force’ with ‘password’, ‘air attack’ with ‘password theft’ and ‘defense’ with ‘cybersecurity’ and we realize that this is what happens when ‘insufficient’ is mixed up with ‘harmful’ in cyberspace

< References >

Summary and Brief History — Expanded Password System

Image-to-Code Conversion by Expanded Password System

Proposition on How to Build Sustainable Digital Identity Platform

External Body Features Viewed as ‘What We Are’

History, Current Status and Future Scenarios of Expanded Password System

Negative Security Effect of Biometrics Deployed in Cyberspace

Removal of Passwords and Its Security Effect

Availability-First Approach

Update: Questions and Answers — Expanded Password System and Related Issues (30/June/2020)

< Videos on YouTube>

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

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

< Latest Media Articles Published in 2020 Spring>

Digital Identity — Anything Used Correctly Is Useful https://www.valuewalk.com/2020/05/digital-identity-biometrics-use/

‘Easy-to-Remember’ is one thing ‘Hard-to-Forget’ is another https://www.paymentsjournal.com/easy-to-remember-is-one-thing-hard-to-forget-is-another/

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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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