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Nok Nok: Say Goodbye to Passwords

Feb 21, 2013

This week the Fast IDentity Online Alliance (FIDO) officially launched with a promise to usher in a new era of strong authentication interoperability and usage models. NokNok Labs, a security startup led by the former CEO of PGP that just raised $15 million in a funding round, is among the vendors supporting the effort.

“The idea is to build a strong authentication protocol,” said Phillip Dunkelberger, CEO of Nok Nok Labs.

Today usernames and passwords are the foundation of user authentication. The FIDO Alliance plans to build out a way to use strong authentication elements that already exist today, including biometric devices and TPM chips, in order to augment or replace username/password combinations.

Read the full story at eSecurity Planet:
Nok Nok Opens Door to Better Online Authentication

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

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