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A global study from IBM Security examining consumer perspectives around digital identity and authentication today, found that people now prioritize security over convenience when logging into applications and devices.
Generational differences also emerged showing that younger adults are putting less care into traditional password hygiene, yet are more likely to use biometrics, multifactor authentication and password managers to improve their personal security.
With millennials quickly becoming the largest generation in today's workforce, these trends may impact how employers and technology companies provide access to devices and applications in the near future. Overall, respondents recognized the benefits of biometric technologies like fingerprint readers, facial scans and voice recognition, as threats to their digital identity continue to mount.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/01/29/authentication-today/
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday January 30 2018, @02:55PM
Giving it a bit more thought, the rule set is nothing more than a sequence of numeric values in my program - how they are generated is the key - and the program knows how to interpret them. However, it would be easy for me to add an 'installation key' facility so that any key specified would automatically generate the rule set and a large random data file. The installation key would only be used once (it would be repeatable given the same key on subsequent installations) but would mean that anyone could install the program, choose an installation key, and be good to go with a unique set of random data and rules. Hiding the rules somewhere in the random data set would make them unrecoverable unless one knew where to look for them.
I might kick this idea around a bit but, for my current needs, it is not necessary.