Passwords Are History
As developers, you are caught in a cosmic tug-of-war. On one side you want to protect your users' accounts. On the other side, you're dealing with users who set their passwords to "password" and wonder why their bank accounts are suddenly funding a llama sanctuary or buying Robux.
Passwords should be easy. And yet they aren't. Now it's more complicated than ever to balance security, ease of use, and like wtf is OAuth… amiright?
The first recorded instance of encryption was in Menet Khufu, an ancient city that bordered the Nile. Researchers have found inscriptions inside the tomb of Egyptian Noble Khnumhotep II, who lived around 3900 years ago. The scribe used a simple code of hieroglyphic substitution, changing one symbol for another to obscure the meaning of the inscriptions.
The ancient Romans would utilize passwords through watchwords. The city guards would transcribe a nightly password on a wooden plank, and if someone didn’t know the watchword upon arrival at the gate they would not be permitted to enter.
