The only way is zero … Can you get past the Troll?

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
Coinmonks
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6 min readJul 31, 2018

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With GDPR well under way, companies will have to invest in new ways of authenticating systems, and the storing and revealing of passwords, even in a hashed form. Overall the usage of passwords and a login ID is an archaic method and which needs to be replaced by ever-changing challenges. A key element of this is the concept of NP-complete — a problem which can be solved in polynomial times (eg x²) with…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
Coinmonks

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.