Smartcard and non-password methods (was Re: Password repository)
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Fri Nov 20 23:42:37 UTC 2009
Are any network providers supporting smartcards or other non-password
based authentication methods? Passwords always end up blaming the
user for choosing/not remembering good passwords instead of blaming the
technology for choosing/not doing things so the user isn't forced to
work around its flaws.
I know about the DOD Common Access Card. One-time code-generator tokens
seem more widely used by single enterprises. But inter-operable
credentials still seem to be one of those great unsolved problems for
compter security. Are passwords still the only lowest-common-denominator?
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