An anonymous reader writes
"Wired reports on an enquiry paper from Google employees concerning the long run of authentication on the online. 'Along with several within the trade, we feel passwords and easy bearer tokens like cookies are not any longer sufficient to stay users safe,' the authors write. Their set up involves authenticating one time, to one device, then mistreatment that to unlock all of your other accounts. "We'd like your smartphone or smartcard-embedded finger ring to authorize a brand new pc via a faucet on the computer, even in things during which your phone can be without cellular property." Recognizing that this is not something they'll accomplish on their own, they've gone ahead and created a device-based authentication protocol that is 'independent of Google, requires no special software package to work — aside from an internet browser that supports the login normal — and which prevents websites from mistreatment this technology to trace users.
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