{"id":540,"date":"2007-05-08T13:44:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T13:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2014-11-24T18:13:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T10:13:29","slug":"keychain-password-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/computers\/keychain-password-management-540","title":{"rendered":"Keychain password management?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/trends.masie.com\/archives\/2007\/2\/8\/430-changing-content-and-lms-phd-program-for-clos.html\">recent newsletter<\/a>, Elliott Masie railed against \"password craziness\".<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>No More Passwords - Time for a Keychain!<\/strong><br \/>\n It is time for us to stop the password craziness. Not only is it hard to remember your dozens of passwords, it is also not very secure.  A modest alternative is to use a plug in USB key that would validate who we are at that computer.  The key could add biometric validation such as a fingerprint or could have a one instance password. The fewer passwords that are sent in the open space of the internet the better and this could go a long way in reducing spam and scams.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Elliott's idea is not new and possible right now.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, banks in Singapore have required customers to use \"2FA\" (2-factor authentication) for Internet transactions. For one bank, they send me an SMS message with a code number which adds another password, but I don;t need to remember it.<\/p>\n<p>For the other bank, they sent me a small gizmo (about the size of a thumb drive) and I need to obtain a number from that device and input it after the normal login to the bank's site. (I'm still thinking about how this works. Presumably there are a set of pre-defined numbers that appear randomly on the device and they need to match what the bank's numbers are.)<\/p>\n<p>Either method, would help to reduce the requirement of passwords for every site we ever visit.<\/p>\n<p>I'm so sick of the plethora of passwords I have to remember - all in different formats. We often cannot use the same one more than once (yeah I know, you aren't supposed to anyway...).<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/computers\/keychain-password-management-540#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thumb-drive to eliminate passwords? Bring it on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}