No secrets or stored credentials with Badge’s new authentication system

Badge Inc., a digital privacy firm founded by MIT cryptographers, is celebrating the launch of its patented authentication software, which allows users to enroll once and authenticate across devices thereafter without re-registration. According to a press release, the biometric public key system is easily integrated with leading digital identity providers, and eliminates the risk of centrally stored personal identity information and biometric data being exposed to breaches, thus rendering passwords, knowledge-based authentication (KBA) and biometric credential storage obsolete.

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