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+title: Imagining A Passwordless Future
+description: Can replace passwords with something more user-friendly?
+date: 2021-04-30
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+Passwords are the *worst*.
+
+How many times have you groaned becuase *yet another* password-related thing
+was messed up? Forgotten passwords, passwords that you're *sure* you wrote
+down but can't find for some reason, passwords that you definitely *did* make
+a record of but the site is inexplicably refusing to accept, passwords that
+get silently truncated because your bank is still using 3DES for some reason,
+the list goes on. It's constant point of pain for almost everyone, and even
+after 20+ years of trying to make it work we *still* haven't figured out a
+foolproof method. Password managers help, but they aren't perfect. How many
+times have you created a password for a new account somewhere, saved it, and
+then discovered that your save didn't go through - maybe it didn't meet the
+requirements (because your 24-character string of gibberish didn't includ a s
+p e c i a l   c h a r a c t e r), or maybe your cable box got hit by
+lightning just as you clicked Save, or *whatever*. The fact is that passwords
+are a pain, and it seems to be a pretty intractable problem.
+
+You know what aren't a pain, or at least not nearly to the same extent? Keys.
+That's right, physical stick-em-in-a-lock-and-turn metal keys. They've been
+around since forever, and I doubt they'll be going anywhere any time soon.