Microsoft to abandon passwords

06:01 - Tuesday 15 March 2005 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: microsoft, to, abandon, passwords Category : Miscellaneous

Microsoft has revealed at a security panel at CeBIT that it is preparing to dump passwords in favour of two-factor authentication in forthcoming versions of Windows. Detlef Eckert, the senior director in charge of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative, did not specify which form of two-factor authentication would be used in the next edition of the company’s operating system, codenamed Longhorn.

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