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Perhaps I'm missing something - why try and have wearable passwords when everyone is already carrying around a phone?
by lonnyk 14y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something - why try and have wearable passwords when everyone is already carrying around a phone?
- drucken 14y ago1. For broad consumer uptake, authentication methods better than a password, or indeed classical 2-factor authentication, needs to be "fire-and-forget". That is, users set it up at most once and then it works almost transparently in most situations. This necessitates broad (read, universal) device-to-device connection. 2. There's no universal method for connecting a mobile phone to another device. 3. Besides, what if you require authentication without a password, on a mobile? 4. The closest to a universal method for interdevice connection is USB. Most importantly, a browsing-capable device almost certainly has a USB interface. Hence, efforts like Yubikey.