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If we're going to do away with passwords, let's at least do it properly with smartcards.
by nodata 16y ago
If we're going to do away with passwords, let's at least do it properly with smartcards.
- pdx 16y agoWho wants to carry a smartcard everywhere?
- bensummers 16y agoWho wants to carry their housekeys everywhere?
- pdx 16y agoCertainly not me. I had to tie it to my shoelace when I was going for a run, as my running shorts don't have pockets. Now, of course, as technology has caught up, I bought a lock from Home Depot that allows me to just remember a combination and not use house keys. Much nicer.
- arethuza 16y agoI've worked with systems that used USB tokens with X509 certificates for authentication and the tokens still required a password (as with Chip-n-Pin cards). The "something you have" only really works as an additional authentication factor to the "something you know" of the passwords.
- nodata 16y ago(I didn't say smartcards don't need passwords..)