François Proulx

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  • Account recovery protocol

    Filed US US20160140335A1

    The present disclosure relates to receiving a request for recovery of an account associated with a user, sending a CAPTCHA challenge to a user device associated with the user, receiving an answer to the CAPTCHA challenge and a confirmation code wrapped by an encryption key derived from a provisional master password, sending a notification of the request for recovery to one or more trusted entities associated with the user, and receiving a confirmation of the request from one or more of the…

    The present disclosure relates to receiving a request for recovery of an account associated with a user, sending a CAPTCHA challenge to a user device associated with the user, receiving an answer to the CAPTCHA challenge and a confirmation code wrapped by an encryption key derived from a provisional master password, sending a notification of the request for recovery to one or more trusted entities associated with the user, and receiving a confirmation of the request from one or more of the trusted entities. The confirmation includes a recovery token associated with the particular trusted entity and an encrypted confirmation code.

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  • Remote authentication and passwordless password reset

    Filed US US20170093805A1

    A passwordless reset technique includes actions to receive a request for a password reset, wherein the request password reset is initiated at a first device, determine that the first device is a trusted device, authenticate the user in order to obtain a cloud key from a network device, wherein the cloud key is associated with the first device, derive a key encryption key using the cloud key, decrypt a local storage key using the key encryption key, decrypt a local storage using the local…

    A passwordless reset technique includes actions to receive a request for a password reset, wherein the request password reset is initiated at a first device, determine that the first device is a trusted device, authenticate the user in order to obtain a cloud key from a network device, wherein the cloud key is associated with the first device, derive a key encryption key using the cloud key, decrypt a local storage key using the key encryption key, decrypt a local storage using the local storage key to obtain a content encryption key, obtain a new password via user input, re-encrypt the content encryption key, and transmit it to the network device, derive a new authentication token using the new password, and transmit the new authentication token to the network device.

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  • Secure communication between a virtual smartcard enclave and a trusted i/o enclave

    Filed US US20170091434A1

    A system for accessing a trusted execution environment includes instructions to transmit, from a first trusted execution environment, a request for a biometric match claim, receive, in response to the request for a biometric match claim, biometric data from a biometric capture device, perform a match of the biometric data against biometric templates stored in the first trusted execution environment, and unseal a second trusted execution environment based on the match data.

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