Google’s Making Moves to Kill the Password

word are long and complicated and hard to remember . And that ’s only if they ’re good password . No matter how you slice it , passwords are nettlesome and on top of that , they ’re not even all that secure . Google knows that all too well , and it’spushing for the next giving matter . A annulus peradventure . Like for your digit .

Google ’s been getting behind two - step confirmation for a while , and although that ’s more secure than a stock password , it ’s also more galling . scarce a unadulterated solution . In a paper to be print later this month inIEEE Security & Privacy Magazine , Google ’s President of Security Eric Grosse and Engineer Mayank Upadhyay are pitching alternatives like cryptographic card for your USB , or some kind of ( presumably NFC ) ring .

Google ’s got some software in the making that ’d allow this variety of stuff to log you into a internet browser without involving any sort of software in the middle , just you and your internet browser . But even in the best potential futurity , it wo n’t kill parole completely . So long as your little samara can be separated from you , you ’ll have to have a PIN or something , and the more handily short the PIN , the more of import it is you do n’t informal that key . Still , it beats straight watchword and two - step verification annoyance . And the rather the password can last be position to repose , the better . [ Wired ]

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