Andrew Jamieson
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 1 Apr
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And not just in the computer era, you know, if we go back further than that, the, you know, secret passphrases and, you know, knocks on the door and things like this, they were all used as forms of authentication because that's essentially all we had.
If you weren't
talking to somebody directly, if you're doing something where you didn't know the person, a knowledge-based factor is pretty much the only thing that you had.
We're heading into a point where we're able to leverage the ability of the computing systems that we are using
to be better at these things than we are, better at computation, better at storing more complex information, to use not just knowledge-based factors but calculation-based factors, if you like, position-based factors based on cryptography,
to move away from these knowledge-based systems.
And I think that's exciting.
I mean, you know, not everybody's going to think that's exciting, but I think that's quite exciting.
It's not going to solve everything, though.
When we think about authenticating into a system, there's kind of three stages to it.
There's the enrollment stage to, you know, where you initially confirm that you were the right person to have that access.
There's the actual validation of who you are stage, and that's where passkeys come in.
But then there's the ongoing access stage as well.
Once you've authenticated, you're not authenticating every packet that you send to that system.
You're generally given some sort of token or given some sort of connection that you use over a session or some extended period of time.
So PASCIs and phishing-resistant authentication solves that kind of middle point where we are concerned about the theft of passwords being used, knowledge-based factors, computers just being better at it than we are.
But I think what we need to do as we move into the future to make sure that we are in a perfect future where account takeover is no longer a threat, we also need to solve the kind of the initial enrollment phase and we need to look at the ongoing authentication phases as well.
But the good news is we've got technology in the pipeline that's going to help with those systems as well.
So how close are we?
We're a lot closer, but as always, there's still work to be done.
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