Evaluating Biometrics for a Cryptographic Application

The demand for digital identity and access management solutions in cybersecurity is gaining substantial traction due to the overwhelming majority of data breaches resulting from attacks on digital identity, and the rising regulatory requirements on companies to mitigate these challenges. To combat this, a particular set of solutions for passwordless authentication are those based on the FIDO2 standards. Yet most of the existing FIDO2 solutions are built for consumer use cases first and suffer from poor identity sovereignty and recovery experiences for employees and small business administrators. Dapple is developing a biometrics-based FIDO2 authenticator for passwordless login access, with the final aim of creating a commercial sovereign, secure identity solution in the area of Identity and Access Management using an innovative combination of biometrics and cryptography. In this project, we will perform R&D to evaluate the security of this novel approach.