Forget Your Password

ZDNet is pushing what it calls "a safe, central storage location for" passwords. Is it?

ZDNet is pushing what it calls "a safe, central storage location for" passwords.

Password Pro stores logon names and passwords in a single password-protected mini-database.

What the program doesn't do: employ bi-directional authentication, where you not only authenticate yourself to a site - but the site authenticates itself to you.

With security products such as those developed by Xcert Software, certificates may soon eliminate the tedium of passwords altogether, while improving - rather than eroding - your privacy.