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FORNY20-FORNY2020

KVAL: Qualifying biometrics-Assisted Authentication towards eIDAS Level of Assurance HIGH (Qubit HIGH)

Alternative title: Kvalifisering av auentisering for biometri for eIDAS nivå høyt

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

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Project Number:

337697

Project Period:

2022 - 2023

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Biometrics is the only way to binding a trusted identity with a natural person. However, how to achieve eIDAS Level of Assurance (LoA) HIGH for persons’ identity authentication using biometrics is not one of the things the stakeholders in the market have common understanding, let alone a consensus, due to the diversity in laws and their interpretation, technical security and privacy risk, market major players’ technical roadmap, trust models, and usability in varied application scenarios. This project aims at improving the mutual understanding and possibly a consensus among the stakeholders in the ways biometrics can be adopted for identity authentication meeting the eIDAS LoA HIGH,(e.g IDPorten) through a series of surveys and discussions. Based on this improved common understanding, a general guideline for creating a Norwegian biometric solution meeting eIDAS LoA HIGH will be generated and used to evaluate a set of market solutions, including the Biofy’s privacy-preserving biometric authentication (PPBA) solution for their market potential.

(1) better understanding of the requirement of LoA HIGH based on questionnaire to general public and interviews with 6 stakeholders (eID supplier, individual user, service provider user, biometric technology supplier, academia, and authority / consultancy); (2) general understanding of biometrics limits and potentials in improving the authentication process; (3) updated Biofy privacy-preserving biometric authentication algorithms and protocols design reflecting the feedback from the questionnaire and interviews (4) refined market gaps that the Biofy solution can best address

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FORNY20-FORNY2020