Saturday, September 15, 2007

OTPs: Need of the hour

Most of the times I feel uncomfortable to login to any of my mail boxes, reason being possible key loggers. Now key loggers are mandatory in Mumbai cyber cafes .

I always feel that, users should be given the power of creating One time Passwords (OTPs), which expires on login. This feature at least ensures that, credentials doesn't fall into wrong hands.

Though researchers are working on advanced techniques, I prefer to have OTP feature on all my mailboxes at the moment.

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