Remote authentication and passwordless password reset
AssigneeMcAfee, Inc.
InventorsFrancois Proulx, Mathieu Rene, Richard Reiner
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AssigneeMcAfee, Inc.
InventorsFrancois Proulx, Mathieu Rene, Richard Reiner
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Examples are disclosed herein to implement remote authentication and passwordless password reset. An example server includes: at least one processor to forward executable instructions to a client device, the executable instructions, when executed at the client device, to cause the client device to: authenticate a user of an account based on a biometric authentication factor; obtain a local storage key by decrypting an encrypted local storage key with a cloud key obtained from a remote authentication server, the cloud key associated with the client device; decrypt a key bag with the local storage key, the key bag including a content encryption key and an encrypted credential encrypted with the content encryption key, the encrypted credential associated with the user; and decrypt the encrypted credential with the content encryption key to obtain a credential without the user supplying a master password associated with the account.
A server comprising:
At least one of a storage device or storage disk, comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a client device to at least:
A method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.