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Yes, people are good at managing physical things. The issue I'm guessing you'll run up against is the implementation. You have to convince every developer to ad
by jimmar 15y ago
Yes, people are good at managing physical things. The issue I'm guessing you'll run up against is the implementation. You have to convince every developer to adopt a new mechanism for authentication. I don't think passwords will be displaced very soon; they are just too easy to implement.
- markkum 15y agoWe currently support OpenID, so any site/service supporting OpenID works with the Mepin keys. Sadly there are a lot of shaky OpenID implementations out there, so yes the implementation is a challenge. And I do also agree that we will never get rid of all the passwords.
- lukeschlather 15y agoNot necessarily. All you need is browser extensions that mimic the built-in remember password functionality, and a hardware-encrypted USB key that serves as a data store for the browser extensions. That does reduce the USB key to a single point of failure though. That risk could be mitigated with a proprietary key copier. A standard way to generate key pairs for authentication would be a lot better though. (Really, there's no reason we couldn't use SSH private keys with some simple client and server plugins.)