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Next Password Could Be Stored in Plastic
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agoDo we really need to generate more petrochemical waste so we can have neat little hardware tokens?
- WorldPeas 1y agothe paper: https://www.cell.com/chem/fulltext/S2451-9294(25)00161-5?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2451929425001615%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://www.cell.com/chem/fulltext/S2451-9294(25)00161-5?_re... Also perhaps my reading comprehension has suffered over the past years, but it seems there is no challenge-response component to this? To my knowledge that's the only way this could be airtight.
- maxwellg 1y agoCool tech. Don’t put a password in something that can be read by anyone with a scanner though.
- dragontamer 1y agoTerrible application but exciting tech. It's a new form of information storage using very cheap substances. It's only a few dozen bytes for now but it's still cool to see fundamental research like this take place.
- Elixir6419 1y agowhatever happened to printing the passwords qr code. The tech might itself is interesting. My first thought was archival though. Storing whatever we have on paper archives.