It’s a universal fact that passwords are a pain to deal with. You’re advised to create a unique and different password for every account you create on the internet, from Club Penguin to your Facebook account to your email inboxes.
But, alas, the requirement to memorise all those passwords is simply not feasible for a majority of people. As a result, we instead opt for different iterations of a password, often by adding a number or character to it. Needless to say, in terms of security, this leaves you vulnerable. Therefore, some people opt for using password managers, apps where you can store all your passwords for your different accounts, all protected by one master password. Unfortunately, this then creates the added step of opening said password manager, extracting your password for a certain account and then using it to login to a platform. However, Google has launched a new API called “Open YOLO”, which will let Android apps to securely access your passwords stored in your password manager. And yes, “YOLO” stands for “You Only Login Once”.
The API is open source, letting anyone contribute and adopt it, with Dashlane being the first password manager to utilise it.
“Our Development team believes that open source security projects make it easier for users to protect themselves online by giving them simple security options that work on a variety of platforms. Dashlane is spearheading the collaboration with other top password management companies, who will contribute their unique security and software development expertise to improve the design and implementation of this open API.”
This is great news for anyone who uses a mobile device as both Google and Dashlane are effectively letting you negate the need to deal with login screens. YOLO.
Source: Dashlane
