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Re:Goodbye, Password. Banks Opt to Scan Fingers and Faces In... by jnpatel on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @08:43PM (#11950741)
+1 to U2F: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor
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Re:Goodbye, Password. Banks Opt to Scan Fingers and Faces In... by foxylad on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @11:28PM (#11951372)
U2F is a good addition, but the current incarnations suffer from two issues.

First, most of us need access to our phones (no USB reader) and our computers (no NFC). Yubikey have a combo device, but it costs $50.

Second, they cost way too much given that most of us probably need two or three tokens in case we lose the primary one. $50 is fair enough for employees of large banks, but until they cost under $5 I doubt they'll take off for personal use.

If anyone knows of good value combined USB/NFC tokens, please enlighten all of us.

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