03.29.2017 - A Password-Free World: Past, Present or Possible Future?
Struggling to remember the password for an email address or the answer to that odd security question to sign into a bank account online can often make us feel nostalgic for the days before our lives were filled with PC passwords and unique swipe patterns on smartphones. The password-free world is a nice fantasy, but we have to break it to you, our world has had passwords for centuries, if not longer. Wearing the right colors identified your tribe, signet rings identified that you were part of a specific state or region, and many religions have had their own shibboleths to identify believers. All of these efforts were designed to let the right people in and keep others out. However, it might be a reality of tomorrow thanks to things like private cloud federation solutions and federated single sign-on (SSO) tools. ...