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| Time: 01:22 EST/06:22 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates predicted the demise of the traditional password because it cannot "meet the challenge" of keeping critical information secure. Gates, speaking at the RSA Security conference here on Tuesday, said: "There is no doubt that over time, people are going to rely less and less on passwords. People use the same password on different systems, they write them down and they just don't meet the challenge for anything you really want to secure." | ||
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| #1 By 931 (68.219.163.127) at 2/26/2004 5:13:29 AM |
| gates has been starting to sound like a moron lately. |
| #2 By 16302 (64.201.211.161) at 2/26/2004 10:00:29 AM |
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There certainly are much better ways to authenticate people, but Bill G is wrong in that the username/password authentication will suffer some form of demise. This will be in our culture for a long time.
Consider this, there are many better forms of securing our house than a deadbolt with a cylinder lock. This can be picked in less than 30 seconds. However, just about every house on this continent is still protected by this weak security system. It is hundreds of thousands of times weaker than most username/password mechanisms and it protects our most valued assets - our persons, families, and possessions. The standard username/password mechanism is fairly secure as long as the user maintains a proper password and the challenge/response authentication system is using a secure mechanism. The only place this will go away is in high security environments where the users cannot be trusted to maintain secure passwords, yet they have access to someone else's secure information. ie: in banks and corporations. Passwords will continue for decades everywhere else. They have been around for millenium; they will persist. |
| #3 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at 2/26/2004 11:19:49 AM |
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The best solution to security is a layered one; likewise to authentication. So, even where other means of authentication are employed, ID/password authentication is often retained.
Nevertheless, what is holding up corporate use of other forms of authentication is still cost. When you have 100,000 employees to outfit, setup, and monitor with finger print authentication or whatever, the outfit price or price per unit alone is prohibitive. Then, factor in the addtional recurring cost of labor for setup and monitoring and these other forms of authentication look very expensive. Only in certain government (the NSC, for example) and industry (banking - the Fedline, for example) units does the need for better authentication override cost at this time. Having said the above, the time is near when using an 8+ mix of alpha numerics and symbols in a password can be broken in a relatively short period of time. This may necessitate other forms of authentication regardless of cost in many more areas. |
| #4 By 1868 (141.133.156.201) at 2/26/2004 11:57:36 AM |
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| #5 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 2/26/2004 2:36:03 PM |
| The problem is one of hardware cost and standards, essentially. But look at it this way--it wasn't all that long ago that computers were found without mice, either. It's not entirely unlikely that a biometric scanner will become part of a standard PC setup. It will take a handful of years to become pervasive, but I think that you have to keep in mind that Gates isn't saying we need it *today* for *everyone*. If they want to see alternative authentication methods employed in a few years, they need to start driving towards that goal now. |
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