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Google Wants to Replace All Your Passwords with a Ring

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Re: Google Wants to Replace All Your Passwords with a Ring

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post #5

Isn't this exactly the same concept (if not implementation) as that of the yubikey ( http://www.yubico.com/ ) In fact, google supports yubikey for google mail login. I use mine with Lastpass password vault. Once you have the browser plugin it makes it so easy login and generate secure passwords.

Interestingly, on Yubikey NEO's web page:

Currently sold out. We expect new orders to ship in 7 weeks.

Re: Google Wants to Replace All Your Passwords with a Ring

#52
post #47

Perhaps I'm missing something - why try and have wearable passwords when everyone is already carrying around a phone?

1. 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.

Re: Google Wants to Replace All Your Passwords with a Ring

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post #4

Most of my passwords are in a file called ring. I never write them out fully, but have mnemonics to help me remember. So many sites and if you want to have more than a few passwords, it really is unmanageable.

Use a password manager. You never have to think about what a password looks like again. Keepass and KeepassX are a very popular ones. There is also PasswordSafe by Schneier.

Unlike LastPass and many other password managers, they are fully offline.

Also, Keepass has full mobile support as well as many plugins, including auto-login on browsers.

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