We all know that long e-mail passwords are hard to remember and are very vulnerable and easy to hack by hackers. There is a good news for Google account holders that Google is about to come out with a solution to remembering long passwords by launching a system in which users can access their accounts online by using physical keys.
With the help of this new technology Google account holders can validate their identitity using physical keys or our jewellery instead of typing long passwords.
It is reported that the latest upcoming magazine issue of IEEE security and privacy will be having a article about the upcoming physical key having a "smart chip" inside it and the details about this chip will be expanded by Eric Grosse, the Vice President of Google.
These new physical keys will be in the form of Universal Serial Bus (USB) which will when inserted into USB port will prove the identity of Google account user.These USB key is termed as Yubikey. When user plugged in this key to his computer and laptop then he will be automatically logged in to his Google account.
Google account holders can also use smart chip enabled finger ring to access their Google Accounts. User can logged in to new computer by just tapping with the finger ring even in the absense of cellular connectivity.
The right now the expert panel is finding out the solution for the cases like loss of key, etc.
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