Is anybody on Steem aware of and looking at SQRL by Steve Gibson from the Security Now Podcast?
QUESTION FOR STEEM and especially DEVELOPERS: is anyone looking at whether this can solve the identity and log in problems for new users on STEEM?
SQRL is probably the most impressive identity verification and log in technology I've ever seen. It really does eliminate passwords and give websites absolutely ZERO secrets to keep. In some ways, it mirrors the idea of keeping your crypto keys in Steemconnect or Keychain on your own machine, but from a usability point of view it's going to be easier.
Development on the various clients for different platforms is underway and needs to advance a bit in the UI dept, but it really is slick once you get it running.
For instance, I have it running as a parallel login for my comment system in Wordpress (and my admin account too). My blog was amongst the first in the world to add SQRL via a plugin. I could if I wished remove the email address from my main login account though I haven't.
This is a long video about it, or you can see Steve's extensive documentation here.
UPDATE: There is one thing I want to draw attention to. I'm not a dev (well not since my PhD thesis some 30 years ago) but this bit at 1hr 20min would seem to be important. It discusses how a website can store encrypted user data that the website CANNOT decrypt until it sees a login with SQRL. Then it can request temporary decryption and discard the results after they're no longer needed. That seems to me something useful for holding posting and other keys.
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