Hitoshi Kokumai

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Illusory truth effect of passwordless authentication

Illusory truth effect of passwordless authentication

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"The more misinformation is repeated, the more likely you are to think that it is true." - I found this remark in this BBC report -  https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210629-south-americas-bitter-divide-over-a-toxic-covid-cure

Its title quickly drove me to come up with this phrase “Global divide over a toxic cure of password predicament”; Chlorine dioxide is to Covid what ‘passwordless login’ is to password predicament. 

"The brain tends to mistake familiarity for fluency: the faster you process something, the more familiar you are with it, the more likely you are to believe it," - It is particularly so when the source of misinformation includes such global big names as Google, Microsoft and Apple.  To make the matter worse, the misinformation has been spread through well-known biz-tech media that make no effort of fact/falsity-check.

I no longer feel as isolated as before, though, as quoted in my previous post –https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hitoshikokumai_dont-believe-the-passwordless-hype-activity-6816176717225443328-R9tz"> “The first SANE report on passwordless hype”

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Memories

Episodic Memory

Key References 
 

 “What we need to do for NOT achieving Solid Digital Identity”

Removal of Passwords and Its Security Effect 

Negative Security Effect of Biometrics Deployed in Cyberspace

External Body Features Viewed as ‘What We Are’

 

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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 

 

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 < 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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There is actually a valid methodology that enable us to maximize the entropy of the secret credentia ...

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