An end to passwords in sight?
Passwords are driving me nuts. Let’s see how many I’ve got – all with different passwords:
- Intranet at work
- Email × 5 accounts
- Student system × 2
- Forums × 4
- Servers × 5
- Banks × 4
- Other financial institutions × 3
- Google accounts × 3
- Yahoo account
- Airlines × 3 (frequent flyer, etc)
- Plagiarism company × 2
So it’s more than 35 accounts. Crazy.
There needs to be one centralised security system that allows the user to identify themselves once, and have access to everything from there. It may need to involve an iris scan, or fingerprint, or smart card or even embedded RFID chip, whatever.
Bill (Gates) is talking about it: Windows Vista & passwords
Dick Hardt of Sxip Identity also has a possible password solution [Sorry, link no longer available] (This presentation is a brilliant use of Powerpoint).
There is some interesting mathematics involved in password encryption. It is one of the many “real-life” uses of mathematics today.
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21 Feb 2006 at 3:09 pm [Comment permalink]
dick hardt was probably using apple’s keynote, not powerpoint
8 May 2007 at 1:44 pm [Comment permalink]
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