November 7, 2024
A group of SFC students won the "Grand Winner" award at the Passkeys Hackathon Tokyo.
"Passkeys Hackathon Tokyo" is a hackathon focused on the innovative authentication technology, passkeys. It was held on June 21, 2024, hosted by Google LLC and supported by the FIDO Alliance. Approximately 200 participants from 25 different universities and companies joined to propose groundbreaking solutions aimed at improving the security and convenience of authentication processes.
The SFC student group, "Keio University SFC-RG pkLock team," tackled the challenge of combining IoT devices with passkeys. They were awarded the Grand Winner prize for the high level of polish in their presentation, development, and demonstration. The team was recognized for proposing new use cases for passkeys in IoT, presenting passkey-based solutions to unresolved challenges, completing development within the time limit, and successfully demonstrating their project in the final presentation.
[Grand Winner]
"pklock"
Keio University SFC-RG pkLock team
◆SFC-RG d-hacks
Takayoshi Oda (3rd year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Tamaki Okada (3rd year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
◆SFC-RG Delight
Taiki Takemura (4th year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Takuto Honda (3rd year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Yuma Soga (3rd year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Yuta Ito (3rd year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Yudai Kuchiishi (2nd year, Faculty of Policy Management)
*SFC-RG d-hacks and SFC-RG delight are the names of research groups within "SFC-RG (a joint research project by Murai, Nakamura, Kusumoto, Takashio, Van Meter, Uehara, Miyoshi, Nakazawa, Tezuka, and Ogoshi)."
Comments from the Winners
We are very honored that our work on pkLock, an initiative within our research lab, has been recognized. Passkeys are a completely new authentication method that solves the problems of traditional ID and password systems. We will continue to dedicate ourselves to research and development to resolve challenges from multiple perspectives, including usability, so that more people can use them. (From all members of Delight)
Since we were developing not just a program but also a physical "thing"—an IoT device—I'll never forget the sense of relief when it worked successfully during the hackathon, under the pressure of knowing it absolutely had to function. I am truly happy that our team's efforts to continuously solve problems have been rewarded in this way. We plan to exhibit it at the SFC Open Research Forum (ORF), so we would be delighted if you could come and see the actual device. (Tamaki Okada, d-hacks)
It is a great honor to receive the Grand Winner award at the Passkeys Hackathon. Our team developed a smart lock that combines passkeys and IoT devices to eliminate the hassle of key handovers at vacation rentals. We paid special attention to design and usability, aiming to create a product that people would want to use in actual vacation rentals. For the demo, we built a miniature door to demonstrate the unlocking process, and I was happy that it attracted the interest of many people. (Takayoshi Oda, d-hacks)
Source: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office