VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland’s new encryption method combines safety, privacy protection, and usability to enable safer, easier-to-use, and more reliable user authentication.
The traditional authentication that is based on passwords is actually pretty weak protection system. This is because users mostly select easy passwords so hackers often succeed in stealing large password databases.
The new encryption method protects, for example, user’s biometric data. This is great news as this data is extremely sensitive and important. In biometric authentication, there is a risk of a leak of person’s permanent biometric identifiers. But VTT’s new method stores data in the database in an encrypted form and all comparisons between measuring results and the database are sent using encrypted messages which means that there is no need to open any biometric data at this stage of the process.
VTT also combines new encryption methods, such as homomorphic cryptography and secure exchange of cryptographic keys, to measuring methods of typing styles. This means VTT’s method also protects the user’s typing style.
Right now, the team is looking for a partner for further processing and then commercialization of this method, which according to them, could become available to consumers within one or two years.
Source:
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland via Phys.org (http://phys.org/news/2016-09-encryption-method-authentication.html)
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