The extension of password usage
from local network to the entire Internet may simply have been
a bad idea.
Passwords are easy
to give away, and
phishing websites
leverage that
Passwords are
exactly the kind of
data you don??™t want
to be intercepted by
a man in the
middle
36 The Problem
There are many ways of protecting information in transit, but the
fact that there are many of them itself makes interoperability
tricky and prevents expectations from reaching a satisfactory
common level. Current solutions for server authentication do
not seem to work too well, and the absence of a common authority
will always favor an ever-increasing proliferation of passwords,
while there??™s no indication that human memory will
improve any time soon. The recent trend toward software as a
service, or SaaS, promises to increase even further the need for
accessing online resources as part of our daily work?¬‚ow.
You may think that the title of the section, ???Decline,??? is a bit
preposterous given the wide usage that passwords are enjoying
today. Yet, the decline is already happening. Lawmakers and
regulators all over the world are already questioning the value of
passwords as an authentication method, requiring additional
authentication factors for high-value transactions.
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