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Google is running a pilot project to see if these USB-based Yubico log-on devices might help it solve the password problem.

“We’d like your smartphone or smartcard-embedded finger ring to authorize a new computer via a tap on the computer, even in situations in which your phone might be without cellular connectivity,” the Googlers write.

The future may not exactly be password-free, but it will at be least free of those complex, hard-to-remember passwords, says Grosse. “We’ll have to have some form of screen unlock, maybe passwords but maybe something else,” he says, “but the primary authenticator will be a token like this or some equivalent piece of hardware.”

That means that if someone steals your card or your smart-ring, you’d better report it stolen pretty quickly.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/google-password/

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