Google To Bring Password-Free Logins Using ‘Project Abacus’ To Android By The End of 2016

At its annual developer conference last year, Google said that it would implement ‘Project Abacus’ instead of using passwords. ‘Project Abacus’ is a new system that verifies user’s identity based on various patterns.

At I/O 2016, Dan Kaufman, Director of Google’s ATAP team said that the project will be available to developers by the end of 2016. ‘Project Abacus’ which was introduced by Google was seen as an improvement over two-factor authentication.

Password free logins

Google earlier announced that the project was in trials and it would be tested by 33 universities that tied up with the company. As the passwords are hard to remember, Project Abacus helps at learning the user patterns such as typing, walking, location, and more.

Kaufman said that “with ‘Project Abacus’, users can unlock a device or sign-in to an app based on ‘Trust Score.’” And the score is calculated by various user patterns.

Password-free logins

Kaufman said, “We have a phone, and these phones have all these sensors in them. Why couldn’t it just know who I was, so I don’t need a password? I should just be able to work.”

He added that “engineers at Google have turned the Trust Score to Trust API. Google will test the Trust API with several very large financial institutions next month. And assuming it goes well, this should become available to every Android developer around the world by the end of the year.”

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