Can Hardware Help Kill the Password? Google Thinks So

to help the Internet move on from usernames and passwords, Google wants to put a ring on it.
Google's engineers have been experimenting with hardware that would act as a master key for online services. Examples include a smart ring for your finger, a cryptographic USB stick, or a token embedded in smartphones. Google vice president of security Eric Grosse and engineer Mayank Upadhyay outline their proposal in a research paper for this month's IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, according to a report in Wired.
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