[154004] in North American Network Operators' Group
How to fix authentication (was LinkedIn)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Jun 20 19:26:57 2012
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:26:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120620194344.GA16763@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org>
> SSL certificates could be used this way today.
>
> SSH keys could be used this way today.
>
> PGP keys could be used this way today.
>
> What's missing? A pretty UI for the users. Apple, Mozilla, W3C,
> Microsoft IE developers and so on need to get their butts in gear
> and make a pretty UI to create personal key material, send the
> public key as part of a sign up form, import a key, and so on.
Yes, but you're securing the account to the *client PC* there, not to
the human being; making that Portable Enough for people who use and
borrow multiple machines is nontrivial.
Cheers,
-- jra
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