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Re: Smartcard and non-password methods (was Re: Password repository)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sat Nov 21 09:39:22 2009

Date: 21 Nov 2009 14:38:32 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200911201830220.32BF5B92.12974@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> Are passwords still the only lowest-common-denominator?

There's OpenID, where a provider can use any verification process it
wants, but all the OpenID providers I know use ordinary passwords.

R's,
John


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