[Discuss] eliminating passwords

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)]

Tom Metro wrote:
> Agreed, but irrelevant with respect to the idea of eliminating
> passwords. Because whether you use a username and password or a client
> side certificate, you're still going to use SSL to encrypt the
> communication channel.

Nope. MIT Kerberos. It was doing end-to-end authentication and 
encryption over open, public networks a decade before Netscape foisted 
SSL upon the world.

-- 
Rich P.