[Discuss] eliminating passwords

[Richard Pieri]

Tom Metro wrote:
> Far from a perfect solution, but its cheaper and a better user
> experience than two-factor.

It's X.509 PKI key exchange. SSL is built on top of an X.509 PKI.

X.509 is far from perfect. Very far. X.509 was designed by committee. It 
shows in its fundamental weaknesses (such as reliance on the trust of 
third party certificate authorities) and implementation weaknesses (too 
numerous to list). Better systems exist. Hell, better systems existed 
before X.509 did.

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Rich P.