So Long Passwords? Cryptocurrency EmerCoin's Block Chain Supports Passwordless Authentication
The developers of the altcoin EmerCoin (EMC) recently released the details of a new block chain technology, EMCSSL. The system provides passwordless logins and identity management via its block chain. The technology has been designed to solve many of the login and authentication issues that plague the Internet. EMCSSL provides a scalable infrastructure for passwordless authorization suitable for an unlimited number of web services. The infrastructure sits on the EMC cryptocurrency block chain, using the block chain as a decentralized store of hash sums for client Secure Socket Layer (SSL)....
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