It’s well known that passwords are oftentimes the weak links when it comes to security online and on our devices. That’s why Google, in partnership with Dashlane and other password manager creators, is launching a new open source project, called Open Yolo, whose aim is to help you ditch your passwords on Android.
Open Yolo (You Only Login Once) is an open API, which will allow Android apps that use it, to securely fetch user credentials from password managers, with users no longer having to manually input or remember passwords. And with that hurdle out of the way, there’s hope that more users will rely on machine-generated, longform passwords that provide much better securely than the shockingly simple passwords that people regularly use.
Google envisions a world where passwords are obsolete. That's why the plan is for Open Yolo to eventually go beyond Android and become a standard in the industry, helping everyone stay more secure. The partners behind the project said they would provide further information on how all of this will work soon.
Source: Dashlane Via: The Guardian
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