Strengthening Digital Identity with Palm Recognition with Humanity Protocol
Why Palm recognition? Why is this form of security optimal?
About PalmSecure:
PalmSecure provides a high level of accuracy, is easy to implement and uses — a non-intrusive and contactless reader. This ensures virtually no physiological user restrictions while proving to be extremely hygienic as no contact to the skin is required. As veins are internal and have a wealth of differentiating features, attempts to forge an identity are extremely difficult, thereby enabling a high level of security.
PalmSecure, our market-proven biometric authentication technology based on palm vein pattern recognition, has been shown to be one of the most accurate biometric authentication solutions currently available.
The risks of traditional authentication methods
There exist several different methods of authentication. Traditional methods are for example passwords or smart cards. But what are the problems about these methods?
In contrast to traditional authentication methods, biometric characteristics are unique and fixed to a person
Yeah ! We see advantages of palm biometrics:
- Easy to use
- Contact less and hygienic
- Suitable for public use
- Embeddable in all kinds of flat products, including laptops copiers, printers, fax machines, access systems, and eventually even mobile phones
- Unique, irreplaceable, no bot can copy it
- There is no alternative mass of users
- Mitigate the leakage of weak passwords to scam users or use of passwords to reuse accounts of previously KYC-ed users
Why should you seek the opportunity to experience Humanity Protocol’s testnet?
We wanted to see how HP did with PalmSecure:
Rooted in decentralized identifiers (DID) and verifiable credentials (VC), Proof of Humanity integrates palm recognition, decentralized storage, and zero-knowledge proofs. This is a powerful mix of technologies that empower users with absolute ownership over their data and identity when performing a wide range of tasks, especially online.
Proof of Humanity runs on Humanity Protocol, a zkEVM (zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine) Layer-2 blockchain.
Forming the human layer of the internet
Phase 1 establishes the most extensive network of verified humans using advanced palm recognition technology. The protocol can certify that a user is a new and unique person to the network and attach personal details to a person using palm recognition.
By utilizing mobile devices to capture these palm scans, Proof of Humanity allows a wider pool of individuals to participate. This approach involves capturing an RGB image via a smartphone camera in natural light, capitalizing on advanced palm print analysis technology.
This phase equips the Proof of Humanity system with true Sybil resistance to mitigate bots.
What happens whenever we scan our palms?
Establishing your digital identity
In Phase 2, Humanity Protocol evolves into the internet’s identity layer, allowing users who upload and validate data while safeguarding personal information with zero-knowledge proofs.
The ecosystem of authorized validators on Proof of Humanity confirms users’ data, such as education or compliance records, without the need to share personally identifiable information. This enables new use cases that include proof of asset ownership, verifying bank balances without disclosing the exact figure, and more.
The Humanity Protocol app transforms palm prints into encrypted biometric signatures and issues a Verifiable Credential (VC) to the user’s protocol address on-chain, ensuring images of the palm are not stored centrally.
Interestingly, right? So don’t hesitate any longer. Please quickly join us!
Join the waitlist now for early access now:
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Humanity Protocol is creating the world’s first truly sybil-resistance network of blockchains that will onboard the first billion humans.
Humanity Protocol is developing Proof of Humanity as a novel feature of Humanity Protocol to provide developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms, and users complete ownership over data and identity. Humanity Protocol is the human layer for Web3.
