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RE: Call off the dogs--authentication solution already in enterprise-class

mrjsmith 15th Sep 2008

Yeah. Can't wait to have all my passwords locked on my work machine, well, work related passwords. Oh, machine upgraded. Crap. Well, at least I have a bunch on my home machine. Oh, wait, hard drive crash. New machine. Crap. Well, maybe my laptop and desktop will sync passwords. No. Crap. OK, so since we're storing all these keys on the special chip, I would guess any place you'd log in to will now require all sorts of serious security info to re-establish that password connection, right?

I have to tell you. I don't see it. Lets say you have a fresh laptop. Your desktop fried, and you wanted something mobile. You have to start from scratch. Your online banking provider has set up two levels of login. One with the chip and one without. However, once you decide to "go chip", you can't downgrade, because what would be the point of super-secret logins if you could log in without them, right? The process of associating your new machine with your existing account will be painful in the extreme. Even worse, you haven't typed in a password in 2 1/2 years, so you have no idea what any of that info is.

I think the intent is cool, but it needs work. We will be using mostly mobile devices in the near future, so maybe tied to your cell, but other than that, forget it.