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Re:Cierge – passwordless authentication by BrandoElFollito on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:43AM (#16131637)
When seeing the name, my first thought was "pray to authenticate" de clicked on to check this out.
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Re:Cierge – passwordless authentication by zenojevski on Friday January 12, 2018 @08:32AM (#16132635)
It is a shortening of "Concierge", which is, in short, the person overseeing an apartment or hotel lobby.
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Re:Cierge – passwordless authentication by BrandoElFollito on Friday January 12, 2018 @08:49AM (#16132750)
Concierge is also a French word, so the shortening is a bit unfortunate.
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