THELOGICALINDIAN - The South Korean militarys Military Manpower Administration has partnered with Raonsecure one of S Koreas arch ICT aegis software companies to accommodate a blockchainbased biometric ID and affidavit band-aid for the S Korean Military
South Korean Army Goes Digital
The South Korean Military’s Military Manpower Administration has appear that they will be adopting a new biometric ID and affidavit band-aid advised by Raonsecure, one of the arch cybersecurity firms in South Korea. Raonsecure is additionally the aggregation abaft TouchEn. TouchEn OnePass is the best accepted FIDO (Fast Identity Online) biometric affidavit account in Korea, and is additionally the aboriginal FIDO-certified affidavit arrangement currently actuality acclimated by banking institutions.
Raonsecure’s blockchain ID band-aid is actuality jointly-developed with the Loop, the alignment abaft the Icon (ICX) blockchain network. The blockchain-based affidavit arrangement will be advised with FIDO standards advised into the arrangement itself. FIDO-certified affidavit solutions use different biometric markers like articulation recognition, facial recognition, fingerprints, iris recognition, forth with present solutions like an old ancient pin number, to abode a advanced array of use cases.
Biometric Authentication is a massive arising market
Raonsecure currently serves 30 actor bodies in S. Korea with TouchEn biometric adaptable payments, and they activity this to abound to 700 actor users in the Asian-Pacific region. Raonsecure’s TouchEn affidavit band-aid takes a folio from blockchain by employing accessible key cryptography, accustomed to abounding cryptocurrency users as the apparatus which generates wallet accretion seeds and wallet addresses.
Biometric systems affiance amazing accessibility and abundant beneath abrasion for consumers with abundant bigger aegis than the present password-based systems currently in use.
Inadequate countersign anarchy is the basis account of 80% of abstracts breaches, and back you add that to the actuality that the archetypal internet user has over 90 password-based accounts we can see a huge abeyant accident for breaches. FIDO biometric systems badly abate this accident and accomplish the online checkout action abundant smoother, while abbreviation fraud.
For aggressive applications, things like 2 factor-authentication, passwordless verification, and multifactor affidavit could be active to admission acute systems, belted locations, and clandestine data, etc.
Not the aboriginal time a Military has acclimated Blockchain
South Korea’s absorption in application blockchain for aggressive applications comes not continued afterwards China’s announcement that soldiers could be adored in crypto for admirable achievement and affair loyalty, aftermost November. The account bankrupt aloof afterwards China’s President, Xi Jinping, abashed the crypto association with his new adulation for blockchain technology.
The US aggressive additionally bidding agnate interests in leveraging blockchain technology for aggressive use aftermost year. In a press release aback in August, a San Fransisco-based blockchain technology aggregation appear it had active a arrangement with the United States airforce to actualize an interoperable abstracts system. Utilizing blockchain’s immutability, Constellation Network, accustomed it could “help deeply alleviate commonly siloed and non-accessible abstracts and abstracts sources”. The company’s VP, Benjamin Diggles, continued,
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