Cloudflare is working with the makers of Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on a new way for websites to tell whether incoming traffic is legitimate – without resorting to the usual mix of CAPTCHAs, logins, and extra tracking.

The system is called Private Access Control Tokens, or PACT, and it arrives at a time when bots have surpassed human traffic online.

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    Why do you assume it’s one static unchanging token? That’s not how cryptography works, you can issue virtually unlimited signatures or challenges/responses without the other party knowing your private key

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      13 hours ago

      It’s cryptographically impossible to ensure that kind of security.

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        5 hours ago

        Are you saying asymmetric cryptography doesn’t exist or is not secure? You may want to collect your research prize and/or bring down the global banking system