Moving Beyond Passwords For Security

Naturalist writes with an excerpt from a New York Times story about the need for a more secure method for identification than the password-based system almost everyone currently uses. The article also discusses the weaknesses of the OpenID initiative to simplify the process. "The solution urged by the experts is to abandon passwords -- and to move to a fundamentally different model, one in which humans play little or no part in logging on. Instead, machines have a cryptographically encoded conversation to establish both parties' authenticity, using digital keys that we, as users, have no need to see. ...OpenID offers, at best, a little convenience, and ignores the security vulnerability inherent in the process of typing a password into someone else's Web site. Nevertheless, every few months another brand-name company announces that it has become the newest OpenID signatory."

Comments

Re:OpenID

[Tony Hoyle]

The WoW ones cost 6 euros a piece. If that kind of security is available for a game then what are you prepared to spend for something important?

Re:"Beyond Passwords"

[c0sine]

What did you have expected from a moran teaching business and writing for NYT? An unexpected strike of intelligence? LOL...