Google experiments with new ways to replace the password
in a recent article in Wired. com, Google is working on an easier way to connect to your Gmail account. Their security team is describing a process in a new research paper that will be published later this month in the journal Engineering, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine. The process is a finger ring authentication, what they see as similar to a Yubico or "password key key" access via a USB interface.
As Internet users you hear about e-mail and other personal accounts are hacked all the time, but in 2012 it seemed that the password system broke. Almost all Internet users have received spam or means for money, and own Wired magazine, Mat Honan showed how devastating hacked can be. Hackers deleted Gmail Mat account and, wiped away its devices, essentially erasing his digital life.
Wired states, "the passwords are a means cheap and easy to authenticate users, but they are not strong enough for the Internet today, and they never will. "
Google vice president of security, Eric Grosse with Engineer Mayank Upadhyay include means they see people connect to Web sites in the future, they say." With many in industry, we feel passwords and tokens to the single carrier such as cookies are no longer sufficient to keep users safe. "
So they are looking for new ways to replace the password and experimenting with smart cards, smart phone and other means of authentication. They see a future in which you want to authenticate a device and use only almost as if using a car key, to access your email and other online accounts.
"What are you waiting for? Well, you use the existing authentication in two steps. It is not perfect. But it's better than just a password," read the full article Google declares war on the password.
They see a future in which users would be
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