On Nov 16, 2013, at 11:16 PM, Christian Huitema <[email protected]> wrote:
> Many site seem happy to manage a password for each user. The state of the art 
> seems to be, let the user select a password, and use an e-mail exchange to 
> verify that the user is who they say they are. It seems that it would not be 
> much more complicated to let the user present the signature of a public key, 
> and use an e-mail exchange to verify that this is indeed the user's public 
> key. Has that been tried already?

Maybe so.   This works fine, but doesn't allow for per-device repudiation.

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