Patent attributes
A method performed by a user device is disclosed. The method comprising generating a secret and measuring a biometric template of a user operating the user device. The method then generates a plurality of secret shares of the secret and of the biometric template. The user device then transmits the secret shares of the secret and of the biometric template to a plurality of recovery devices. After, the user device may then initiate a recovery of the secret and measure a biometric measurement of the user. Data of the biometric measurement may be transmitted to the plurality of recovery devices, where the recovery devices perform a partial computation. The user device use the plurality of partial computations to determine a match between the biometric template and the biometric measurement. If the two biometrics match, the user device can reconstruct the secret using shares of the secret from the recovery devices.
