Avoiding Lock Outs: Proactive FIDO Account Recovery using Managerless Group Signatures

ePrint Report: Avoiding Lock Outs: Proactive FIDO Account Recovery using Managerless Group Signatures

Sunpreet S. Arora, Saikrishna Badrinarayanan, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Maliheh Shirvanian, Kim Wagner, Gaven Watson

Passwords are difficult to remember, easy to guess and prone to hacking. While there have been several attempts to solve the aforementioned problems commonly associated with passwords, one of the most successful ones to date has been by the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) alliance. FIDO introduced a series of protocols that combine local authentication …

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