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HOBA - No Passwords, Just keys

Imagine not having to make up and remember or write down passwords. Would't that be great? Well now you can. Imagine not having to pick a username or tell a site your email address until you're ready to do that? Well, now you can. And that's all more secure and privacy friendly for you, the user.

If you're a web site operator, imagine how bad it'd be if that lousy database of passwords you have to keep gets leaked? That'd be terrible and might threaten your business. Well, with HOBA, you don't need that database any more, since you just store public keys and as the name implies, those can be safely made public (the same way that your bank's SSL server certificate can).

If you're a developer, you can get the code for all this for free. We've open-sourced our code (dual-license GPL or proprietary) so you can get it, play with it and use it, same as with any other GPL code.

If you're a site operator and you'd like to try or buy HOBA then contact us and we can get started.

If you'd like to see HOBA integrated with a popular web application, we've developed a Wordpress plugin that let's you post comments if you're logged in with HOBA. That's deployed on a blog here.