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A nightmare for a user who has to memorize dozens authenticators will end soon. If before we could not remember the name of a colleague, today – email passwords, ICQ, facebook, credit card PINs. And remember the right we don’t even hope for a phone number, by “driving” it into electronic memory cell phone. But this does not save – we forget the last name of the subscriber when we want to call him. But not for mountains – a complete overload! And – reboot? At least in part passwords. At the Interop conference, which was held from 6 to 10 May Las Vegas, PayPal Payment Services Director information security Michael Barrett said passwords in in the near future, others will be superseded by simpler and more reliable ones. means of authentication. According to him, common in In today’s world, authentication methods are unsafe and inconvenient. In order not to keep a lot of passwords in memory, users either use the same password everywhere, or create simple passwords, which are easy to pick up – 12345 or “password” (English “password”). Two-step authentication systems (when in addition to login and password you need to enter, for example, a confirmation code sent in SMS) used by many internet companies, Barrett generally called a nightmare for the user. Instead of passwords, Barrett suggested use biometric “authentication devices” – scanners fingerprint or retina. Once linking the account to system, the user will be able to log in to the site, by scanning your finger or retina. Imagine you go to the ATM to withdraw money, and instead of a password just call your name or look at the tiny sensor that recognizes samples in the retina. Biometric profile will be read using software to create a unique online password. The authentication system described by Barrett is being developed by the alliance Fast IdentityOnline (FIDO). Barrett predicted that “devices Authentication “, supporting the FIDO system, will appear at the end 2013.
