MS to Trade Passwords for 2-Factor Authentication

Bret Tobey writes "During a security panel at CEBIT, Microsoft's Senior Director for Trustworthy Computing commented that Longhorn would abandon passwords in favor of two factor authentication. While it's hard to argue for keeping passwords, it does raise questions about where this could all lead. None other than Bruce Schneier pointed out how two factor authentication can fail us."

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The real question is

[Monkelectric]

Not how MS is doing this. But how they will attempt to lockout other OS's and vendors with this new initiative.

They could very easily create a smart card or some kind of token system that *COULD NOT* work in linux, or with LDAP (LDAP allows unix and other systems to authenticate against Active Directory).