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comment by Cwiggs
Cwiggs  ·  3549 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Oxford and Cambridge in the race to eliminate passwords

Here is another way to get rid of passwords:





syzo  ·  3548 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just sign a predetermined message with public-key crypto? I don't see why you have to involve an entire blockchain for this. Sounds like someone wanted to shoehorn in cryptocurrency technology just to try to make it more relevant.

zonk  ·  3549 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This picture still recommends for the website to use a 2 way authentication, which is shortly addressed in the original article as time-consuming and not widely used by a lot of people.