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Other => Graveyard => Keyhotee => Topic started by: smiley35 on December 14, 2013, 08:05:31 am

Title: Better pick up the pace, we got competition.
Post by: smiley35 on December 14, 2013, 08:05:31 am

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/microsoft-joins-fido-group-hoping-to-replace-passwords-with-public-key-cryptography/

"FIDO hopes to replace passwords with a system built around public key cryptography. To register with a FIDO site, you won't enter a password into the site. Instead, hitting register will alert your authentication devices—typically an app on your smartphone—of the attempt to register."

"Applications could already use similar techniques for authentication today, but developers would have to create all the components and communications protocols themselves."
Title: Re: Better pick up the pace, we got competition.
Post by: phoenix on December 14, 2013, 01:49:12 pm
This isn't a serious source of competition. It still looks like a centralized method, and I doubt the code will be open source. They do have a significant advantage in the fact that they probably have access to more funding than Invictus Innovations does, which will help with widespread adoption. However, since Keyhotee is open source, it'll be easier for developers to create new uses for it, which will help encourage adoption as well
Title: Re: Better pick up the pace, we got competition.
Post by: JustHayden on December 16, 2013, 04:42:48 pm
Well this can be either a good or bad thing. Good because even the big tech companies see the potential in this idea and have shown interest in going into that direction. Bad because all eyes are on the big tech companies on this front, and it's not about who creates this first, but who everyone's looking at. Invictus still has a head start since Keyhotee is set to release on new years, so it would be smart to spread Keyhotee like wild fire before these tech companies own this idea.
Title: Re: Better pick up the pace, we got competition.
Post by: Lighthouse on December 16, 2013, 05:30:10 pm
I think KryptoKit is a much more serious competitor.
Title: Re: Better pick up the pace, we got competition.
Post by: evisu1 on December 19, 2013, 06:31:21 pm
BitTorrent Details How It’s Building An Anonymous Chat Product Without Using Servers

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/19/bittorrent-chat/

Title: Re: Better pick up the pace, we got competition.
Post by: JustHayden on December 19, 2013, 06:44:14 pm
Well with these 3 competitors I guess it's safe to say the age of the password is coming to an end. Let's just hope Keyhotee leads the pack in Public-key cryptography platforms...
Title: Re: Better pick up the pace, we got competition.
Post by: Troglodactyl on December 21, 2013, 10:11:16 pm
I've been following this project for a while, and it's definitely closely related:

http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/

Hopefully Keyhotee will eventually have distributed forums, or even a fully distributed social network to rival Facebook...
Title: Re: Better pick up the pace, we got competition.
Post by: rysgc on December 22, 2013, 02:53:00 am
I've been following this project for a while, and it's definitely closely related:

http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/

Hopefully Keyhotee will eventually have distributed forums, or even a fully distributed social network to rival Facebook...

Retroshare is a nice piece of software indeed but it's main focus lies in messaging and that's just a small part of Keyhotee's features.
Title: Re: Better pick up the pace, we got competition.
Post by: santaclause102 on January 24, 2014, 12:12:49 pm
How does Keyhotee relate / compare to KryptoKit?
Title: Re: Better pick up the pace, we got competition.
Post by: santaclause102 on January 29, 2014, 10:43:43 pm
How does Keyhotee relate / compare to KryptoKit?

I sounds very similar. Does anyone know how they compare?