Huawei: User safety is above everything else, and the late WeChat fingerprint identification has finally arrived.

Huawei announced that its mobile phone supports the fingerprint payment function of WeChat, and users only need to ensure that the versions of EMUI system and WeChat are up to date. The seemingly popular function of Huawei's mobile phone is two years late, but behind this is the user experience that Huawei sacrificed for user safety. This time, Huawei and Tencent cooperated deeply to solve the problem of fingerprint information security.

Many products are eager to go on the market, regardless of safety issues. For example, the bullet message of the fire some time ago, when the user information just went online, it was easy to reveal the user information, and the pornographic information of the whole App was reported by many users. These problems directly affect the product life cycle and even lead to the decline of the company's reputation. Although the above problems have been fixed, it also shows that the company is not responsible for users. Therefore, the security issue cannot be ignored. Huawei is very serious in this respect, and always thinks that the information security of users is the most important.

Fingerprint payment has been a function of WeChat for a long time, and major manufacturers are also popularizing this technology. However, many Huawei users are very surprised why Huawei, as a technology giant, has not supported WeChat fingerprint payment. In fact, the essential reason is that who will keep the user's fingerprint information has never compromised. Fingerprint information is different from password information. If the password is lost, you can change it at any time. Once the fingerprint is leaked, it will be leaked for life, or it cannot be modified for a long time.

There are several ways to store fingerprint identification in the industry. Apple, the pioneer of fingerprint identification, attaches great importance to the fingerprint information of users, so its attitude is also very tough, that is, the user information only exists locally on the mobile phone, and will not be uploaded to the Apple server, nor will it be called by any third party. When the user needs to verify the identity, the local fingerprint of Apple will be compared with the fingerprint pressed by the user, and if it matches, it will pass. The fingerprint storage scheme of Android phone is basically at the level of upload server or storage system. On the one hand, there is a risk of fingerprint uploading, on the other hand, the software can call the user's fingerprint at will, which is also very unsafe.

Huawei's approach is the same as that of Apple. For the safety of users, it would rather sacrifice its function, neither uploading to any server nor supporting software calls, so it exists in a local isolation area. This also leads to the inconsistency between Huawei and WeChat, that is, Huawei users cannot use WeChat payment function. Of course, I personally think that Huawei's approach is good. After all, Apple can do this. Why can't domestic manufacturers? Of course, Huawei also said that it has been discussing research with the WeChat team and hopes to solve this security problem through technology.

Finally, based on the WeChat SOTER security certification standard, Huawei and WeChat carried out in-depth cooperation and developed a set of security solutions for fingerprint payment. Huawei mobile phone still stores the user's fingerprint information locally and will not send it to the third party, that is, the whole fingerprint information management is handed over to Huawei mobile phone for local storage and runs in an independent TEOS security system, which is very safe. This technology has been certified by the global authoritative information technology security assessment standard CCEAL2+, and it is of course the first in the domestic mobile phone field to obtain this security certification, which further reflects Huawei's uncompromising attitude towards user information security.

The addition of this technology greatly improves the user experience. Huawei users can use the WeChat fingerprint function without worrying about their information being leaked. The combination of Huawei and WeChat is of great significance to the whole industry. Other mobile phone manufacturers should also learn from the practices of Apple and Huawei in information security. After all, once the biological information is leaked on a large scale, the consequences are unimaginable.

For the WeChat payment function, the first supported model is Huawei's P20 series. In five months, the number of mobile phones in this series has reached100000, and the user class is also very good. More models will support this function in the future.