EAB Lunch Talk – Biometric-bound credentials: Enhancing security and flexibility in digital identity

EAB Lunch Talk – Biometric-bound credentials: Enhancing security and flexibility in digital identity
Microsoft Teams
February 19, 2025 @ 12:30-13:30 CEST

European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is hosting a lunch talk about biometric-bound credentials on February 19, 2025.

As digital authentication evolves beyond passwords, hardware-based passkeys have emerged as a promising alternative. However, their reliance on physical devices creates challenges in account recovery, particularly within FIDO protocols, where losing a device can result in permanent access loss.

This talk, lead Dr Norman Poh who leads technical strategy at Trust Stamp, explores biometric-bound credentials as a solution, leveraging biometrics to bind cryptographic keys while maintaining security, usability, and flexibility. Token encryption with biometrics and biometric cryptosystems will be compared, highlighting innovations such as Trust Stamp’s stable IT2, which enables high-entropy key reconstruction independent of the biometric sample. Applications range from secure account recovery and digital wallets to remote identity proofing and biometric-enabled passes. By addressing key security concerns and ensuring compliance with NIST authentication standards, biometric-bound credentials represent the next frontier in digital identity management.

Registration is free but required.

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