Distributed Credential Protection: Trying to beat the hackers and protect our passwords

(Phys.org)—Recent breaches at LinkedIn and Yahoo have heightened the public's concern about password protection. At LinkedIn, millions of user passwords were found and publicly posted. And at Yahoo, hackers broke into a server and stole passwords which were then used to breach other accounts with the same passwords in use. In response, computer security company RSA has developed a technique that it claims can prevent hackers from gaining access to user passwords on servers.

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