Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On

Re:Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Inte... by chrisco255 on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:13PM (#27479625)

Have you tried using MetaMask or WalletConnect as a sign in tool? It's great. The extension pops up with a message indicating the app is requesting access to account. You click yay or nay. MetaMask already has millions of users and growing rapidly.

Average people didn't know how to use email 30 years ago. Didn't know how to use GPS 20 years ago. Didn't know how to use social media 15 years ago. Didn't know how to hail an Uber 10 years ago (and still thought riding in cars with strangers was dangerous).

I think they can be educated.

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Re:Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Inte... by amazingman on Saturday June 12, 2021 @01:51PM (#27486172)

You think the masses can be educated about public key cryptography (and operational security around private keys) because they can learn to tweet and hail an Uber?

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Re:Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Inte... by boon on Saturday June 12, 2021 @08:59PM (#27488830)

I guess I would say the high level functions of public key cryptography aren't that hard to grasp. Things like "hey either one of these keys can encrypt something the other one can decrypt and vise versa" is pretty straightforward. I don't think we have to teach the math involved if that's what you're implying.

Protecting the secrets words for a crypto wallet is pretty much the same thing as protecting the strong password for a password manager. If you lose that, then you're out of luck, and those are very popular.

You could also delegate trust in several places in the chain to trusted third parties if you feel the need, that could re-enable access, or shift assets into a new wallet.

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