{"id":304,"date":"2019-10-30T14:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2021-02-28T23:46:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T04:46:45","slug":"sqrl-password-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"SQRL password alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Steve Gibson founder of GRC talks about SQRL his password alternative.  Free.  Requires users to be responsible for their own security and backup their own keys.  I trust this because Steve is a smart guy.  BTW listen to  Steve&#8217;s podcast called SecurityNow on Google Podcasts.  This seems like a natural fit for 2 factor authentication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SQRL client for windows here https:\/\/www.grc.com\/sqrl\/sqrl.htm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SQRL client for Android available in the Google playstore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SQRL wordpress plugin here https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/sqrl-login\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Steve Gibson - SQRL - Secure Quick Reliable Login\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y6J1Yt8YYj0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>why do we need to replace or augment passwords?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-imgur wp-block-embed-imgur\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/1MPVoe5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/1MPVoe5\">Congressman\u2019s phone password is 111111<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Gibson founder of GRC talks about SQRL his password alternative. Free. Requires users to be responsible for their own security and backup their own keys. I trust this because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,46],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-authentication","tag-password"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}