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Biggest and Best Tech Stories of 2017
Published December 25, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: 2017, Android smartphone, Apple, Facebook, Google, iPhone, mobile phone, Mozilla, online security, Roku, Samsung, tech, technology, Uber
Google Wants To Replace Passwords With USB Dongles
Published January 18, 2013 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: authentication, browser, Chrome, Google, online security, password, privacy, research, technology, USB dongle, Yubico key
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Want an easier way to log into your Gmail account? How about a quick tap on your computer with the ring on your finger? This may be closer than you think. Google’s security team outlines this sort of ring-finger authentication in a new research paper, set to be published late this month in the engineering journal IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine. In it, Google Vice President of Security Eric Grosse and Engineer Mayank Upadhyay outline all sorts of ways they think people could wind up logging into websites in the future — and it’s about time.
Thus, they’re experimenting with new ways to replace the password, including a tiny Yubico cryptographic card that — when slid into a USB (Universal Serial Bus) reader — can automatically log a web surfer into Google. They’ve had to modify Google’s web browser to work with these cards, but there’s no software download and once the browser support is there, they’re easy to use. You log into the website, plug in the USB stick and then register it with a single mouse click.