how can you verify that the site you get is not a fake?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 13:40, bruce wrote:
> matt...
> 
> you're close... the complete solution has to encompass a number of different
> elements.
> 
> the original goal was to try to get rid of passwords, and allow the user to
> 'know' that the site that they're heading to/using is the site they actually
> want to be on.
> 
> i'm pretty satisfied with the approach that i'm looking at right now...
> 
> over time, it solves the issue of 'being on the right site', it solves the
> issue of having to handle different passwords.. it gets rid of traditional
> passwords.. it can  be used for basic age verification, it also can be used
> to match a transaction with a given machine via hash/fingerprinting of the
> user machine...
> 
> it deals with lost user/key information...
> 
> dayum, i'm tired...

So how about sharing your solutions with the rest of us?

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