eID and SSI

The eIDAS regulation came to life in 2014. Now it looks like decentralized identities (self-sovereign identities) for eIDs will follow. The idea is interesting: the user is in control of their identities. So far, however, self-sovereign identities has been a research topic and have hardly been tested in real-world. This raises the question which lessons […]

Googeling Nerdhorn

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By using the Internet and its services, such as social media, we leave behind data about ourselves. This data can potentially be used for attacks. For example, bloggers’ addresses and vacation times can be found and used for theft. Even pseudonyms can be correlated if things go wrong. It is, therefore, important to think in […]

Nerdhorn and Fallback Authentication

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Fallback Authentication describes the authentication method that is used if one of the commonly used factors does not work. The nerdhorn usually authenticates itself via face recognition on the smartphone. However, it is no longer recognized by the mask, for example. As an alternative, the font counts here. As is the case here, the alternative […]