Google Joins FIDO Alliance Board of Directors
Google is the latest company to join the FIDO board of directors to develop alternatives to the most basic and vulnerable security measure: the password.
Google has joined the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Board of Directors, the industry consortium developing “standards-based open specifics” to overcome our dependency on passwords through “universal strong authentication.”
The company is specifically focusing on bolstering FIDO’s efforts in developing two-factor authentication through One-Time Passwords (OTP), Near Field Communication (NFC) and Biometric Verification.
One-Time Passwords can already be seen in Blizzard’s Battle.net Mobile Authenticator and Google’s own Authenticator mobile app and involves randomly generated passwords that can only be used once and retrieved by a special device.
The FIDO Alliance was formed in July 2012 to address the lack of interoperability among strong authentication technologies, and remedy the problems users face with creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords. The Alliance plans to change the nature of authentication by developing standards-based specifications that define an open, scalable, interoperable set of mechanisms that supplant reliance on passwords to easily and securely authenticate users of online services.
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Tarun Iyer was a contributor for Tom's Hardware who wrote news covering a wide range of technology topics, including processors, graphics cards, cooling systems, and computer peripherals. He also covered tech trends such as the development of adaptive all-in-one PCs.
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getreal10 nobody gets your password. FIDO keeps every personal identifying factor local only... and the secrets (not the passwords!) are kept among the machines: http://www.fidoalliance.org/how-it-works.htmlReply
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slomo4sho Reply10723503 said:nobody gets your password. FIDO keeps every personal identifying factor local only... and the secrets (not the passwords!) are kept among the machines: http://www.fidoalliance.org/how-it-works.html
Full disclosure: I work with the FIDO Alliance
Not a fan of sarcasm are we?