Cybersec

Medium’s Lack of Password Provides Blueprint for the Future

Passwordless login hints on future of Credential Authentication. If you haven’t realised already, Medium does not sign in with a password.

Key Points

• The Pain of Passwords
• Medium’s Magic Links
• Future of Authentication

Sign in to Medium without the pain of passwords.

WHAT do Medium, Slack, and a car have in common? The authentication.

They access passwordlessly, done through the use of immutable and signed tokens.

Medium and Slack both use the magic links sign-in method. In the case of the car, the car key is a form of physical token.

The Pain of Password

YOU have noticed you never had to click “Forget Password” for Medium.

Medium does not use a password based authentication method for its large user base, more than 60 million. This is godsend for some chronic password forgetters.

More than just the problem of forgetting password, the single-use passcode method of authentication on Medium saves its estimated 167 employees the need for a secure password authentication architecture. In fact…