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Cool idea and good on ya for your work with DeliverFund.

How is this better/different than the face identification built into the major platform providers accessible via WebAuthN? My understanding was that WebAuthN was supported by the latest version of major browsers: https://caniuse.com/webauthn

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thank you. You are right, Webauthn taps into SDKs of platforms like iOS, Windows Hello, google's version of android. They use infra-red depth perception sensors to create a mesh of the user's face as ID and store it on the device's secure enclave. It can only be accessed and used on that device. For that reason, Apple users have to set up fingerprints separately on iPhones and Macs. The same will be for FaceIDs on the new-gen of Macs - users will be setting it up separately on different devices. We instead store biometrics in the cloud so it is not tied to a specific device.

Thanks, that makes the differentiation very clear.

> in the cloud in the secure enclave

Choose one.

good catch, I've fat fingered it while editing the comment

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