You use passwords, possibly dozens of passwords, to authenticate to websites daily. Passwords are a useful authentication tool because they function as a “thing-you-know” (a shared secret between you and the server) and because passwords can be changed (in case of loss, unlike say, your fingerprints).
In a diatribe against OpenID titled, “Goodbye, Passwords. [...]
By Emil Sit
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Posted in Technology
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Also tagged authentication, bruce schneier, cookies, e-mail, FastMail, GMail, ING, Kim Cameron, openid, password, randall stross, security, session, Vanguard
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Susan Hohenberger defended her thesis Friday at MIT. Susan’s
thesis work is on developing secure algorithms for proxy
cryptography. These are new cryptographic constructions that are designed to
allow a third party, the proxy, to take a cryptographic object produced for
(or by) a particular key and transform it so that it is a valid object
for (or [...]
