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amelius on April 10, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Web Authentication: Proposed API for accessing Pub...

That would be a good use for a smart-watch.

Fitting keyboards with NFC devices could make it even better.

naasking on April 10, 2018 | [–]

> Fitting keyboards with NFC devices could make it even better.

As long as the user must do something on the device to approve it, otherwise you can have proximity scanning attacks as with RFID.

Avamander on April 10, 2018 | | [–]

Thankfully NFC can be two-way.

kuschku on April 11, 2018 | [–]

Or good old smart cards with smartcard reader in the keyboard again?

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