PayPal Chief Security Officer: identity authentication will leave the password age

A large number of accounts and passwords that are easy to forget are a major by-products of the Internet. A few days ago, the payment vendor's PayPal Chief Information Security Officer, Barrett MichaelBarrett, said that the technology of using the account password to authenticate the user's identity "cannot survive for a few days. Barrett made the above statement at the recent InteropIT conference.

Barrett said that the account and password technology will not be used for much time. In the future, online Internet identity authentication will rely on integrated software and hardware technologies.

Barrett also has an industry identity-FIDO, the president of the online Alliance for fast identity recognition. The mission of the organization is to use integrated software and hardware technologies to implement identity authentication for netizens. software technologies include passwords or Web plug-ins, hardware includes USB flash drives, fingerprint scanners, voice recognition, facial recognition, and NFC.

However, Barrett did not discuss whether PayPal will launch a new identity authentication technology in the near future. He revealed that FIDO-certified identification devices will be available in the market within the year, which will make it possible to say goodbye to passwords.

It is worth mentioning that, in terms of abandoning traditional passwords, Google, a network giant, has recently set an example. As a governing company, Google joined the above-mentioned FIDO alliance.

Relying on a single account and password to authenticate users, in addition to bringing huge memories and storage burden to netizens, these passwords are easily broken by bad ones, resulting in network security risks. Recently, network service providers, including Apple and Twitter, have begun to promote dual authentication, that is, they can authenticate users by text message verification codes in addition to user accounts and passwords.