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.

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
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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