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From: "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org>
SSL certificates could be used this way today.
SSH keys could be used this way today.
PGP keys could be used this way today.
What's missing? A pretty UI for the users. Apple, Mozilla, W3C, Microsoft IE developers and so on need to get their butts in gear and make a pretty UI to create personal key material, send the public key as part of a sign up form, import a key, and so on.
Yes, but you're securing the account to the *client PC* there, not to the human being; making that Portable Enough for people who use and borrow multiple machines is nontrivial. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274