AuthMe – A Passwordless Decentralized Authentication Management System

Abstract

Authentication is the indispensable key process of identifying a user's identity who's using a service, traditionally using passwords. As the number of services grew, password managers have, since then, been used to manage users' passwords. Traditional centralized password managers have proven their inefficacy in securing a user's password and have failed to keep up with the newer security demands, owing to their centralized architecture and reliance on quantum-vulnerable authentication methods. In this paper, an authentication manager is proposed whose model deploys a zero-trust and zero-knowledge architecture, blockchains, hardware authentication, and quantum-proof algorithms to keep up with the modern security demands. The proposed model has eliminated the single point of failure using decentralization, utilized passkeys, and deployed quantum-proof cryptographic algorithms.