Google looks to eliminate passwords with a magic ring

by Robet Tony WOLF With this ring, I thee eliminate your need to ever remember a username and password for logging into a web page. That's what Google is proposing in a new research paper, with a technology called "ring finger authentication." One little ring around your finger could theoretically contain super-encrypted, hyper-safe passwords for all of your email accounts, work files and bank accounts -- so you wouldn't have to remember (and constantly forget) any more of your increasingly complex passwords.

The ring, as proposed, could contain a tiny, removable cryptographic card that would slide into a USB reader to authorize logging into your online accounts. In another scenario Google envisions, you'd just have to tap the ring on your screen to log into an account or authorize other devices to be able to log in.

Google's proposal to eliminate the password will be presented in a research paper later this month in IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine. Parts of the soon-to-be-published paper were shared with Wired magazine and published today.

“Along with many in the industry, we feel passwords and simple bearer tokens such as cookies are no longer sufficient to keep users safe," write Google security engineers Eric Grosse and Mayank Upadhyay. "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."

Slashgear calls it "a car key for the automobile that is your online life."

It's becoming more well-known that passwords are not adequate anymore to prevent phishing, spoofing, and all other manner of predatory online account scams. Even if you keep numerous unique and complex passwords, remembering them is hard. As scammers become more and more savvy, they'll inevitably find ways to infiltrate those password management apps and programs.

Not so if the password management app is on your finger. You had better not lose that ring, though.

So why is Google leading the charge for these elaborately strong password schemes? Isn't there some profit motive for Google to be the lord of the rings? Are they trying to be the gatekeeper of your passwords so they can better figure out what kind of targeted advertisements to put in front of you?

Maybe so -- but remember that for the password rings to gain wide acceptance, Google would need for thousands of banks, web sites and online services to willingly participate. These sites will not participate if they see the whole thing is just a big marketing scheme. That's why Google plans to develop a "protocol for device-based authentication that they say is independent of Google, requires no special software to work," according to Wired.

So the magic "password ring" is more just a way to establish better online security with a handy, wearable ring. But boy would you freak out if you lost your ring.
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