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February 20, 2014 07:00 pm GMT
Password manager startupPasswordBox,which closed a$6 million Series Alast November months after launching its freemium service,has added a new feature to its convenience boosting arsenal that improves the experience for mobile users by allowing them tosign in to other apps and websites with a single tap, i.e. rather than actually inputting a password, or copy-pasting a secure password. Called 1-Tap Login, the patent-pending feature launches in full today for Android PasswordBox app users, with an iOS beta version also released — albeit, it stresses that the latter product is a very early release, with few apps and websites supported. The Android version of 1-Tap supports sign in for 80% of the top 1,000 apps, according to PasswordBox, with more websites being added daily, vs around the top 50 apps on iOS.PasswordBox’s wider claim for Android is that it currently supports about 70% of all logins. The startup is obviously working on building out that percentage, via an automated process of machine learning that parses different app login screen layouts to figure out where to inject password credentials.It does also employ some human checkers doing quality assurance to verify the algorithm is hitting the bull’s eye. Support for new apps is not released until they have been through this QA process — so it tells TechCrunch the accuracy rate is pretty much 100% (being as it only releases support for an app/website login once it’s sure it works). As for app updates that radically redesign the login screens and therefore risk breaking PasswordBox compatibility — these will be flagged via multiple failed logins so it can readjust its algorithms as necessary, without having to do continual manual checking to keep the system ticking over. The technology behind 1-Tap is something PasswordBox is very proud of — to the point where it unboxed that unparalleled cliche, the “paradigm shift” — also noting that one of its competitors claimed it’s impossible to enable smartphone apps to be liberated from their individual sandboxes so they can talk to other apps on the phone. Yet PasswordBox has found a way to do this — and claims it’s not a hack or a workaround, either. “What we’re doing it’s quite revolutionary,” co-founder and CEO,Dan Robichaud, tells TechCrunch.”In the past when you are talking about native apps and native browser, no apps have been able to communicate with other apps because apps are normally sandboxed. We have worked
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PasswordBox Makes It Easier To Securely Log In To Mobile Apps With 1-Tap Login On Android (& iOS Beta)
Password manager startupPasswordBox,which closed a$6 million Series Alast November months after launching its freemium service,has added a new feature to its convenience boosting arsenal that improves the experience for mobile users by allowing them tosign in to other apps and websites with a single tap, i.e. rather than actually inputting a password, or copy-pasting a secure password. Called 1-Tap Login, the patent-pending feature launches in full today for Android PasswordBox app users, with an iOS beta version also released — albeit, it stresses that the latter product is a very early release, with few apps and websites supported. The Android version of 1-Tap supports sign in for 80% of the top 1,000 apps, according to PasswordBox, with more websites being added daily, vs around the top 50 apps on iOS.PasswordBox’s wider claim for Android is that it currently supports about 70% of all logins. The startup is obviously working on building out that percentage, via an automated process of machine learning that parses different app login screen layouts to figure out where to inject password credentials.It does also employ some human checkers doing quality assurance to verify the algorithm is hitting the bull’s eye. Support for new apps is not released until they have been through this QA process — so it tells TechCrunch the accuracy rate is pretty much 100% (being as it only releases support for an app/website login once it’s sure it works). As for app updates that radically redesign the login screens and therefore risk breaking PasswordBox compatibility — these will be flagged via multiple failed logins so it can readjust its algorithms as necessary, without having to do continual manual checking to keep the system ticking over. The technology behind 1-Tap is something PasswordBox is very proud of — to the point where it unboxed that unparalleled cliche, the “paradigm shift” — also noting that one of its competitors claimed it’s impossible to enable smartphone apps to be liberated from their individual sandboxes so they can talk to other apps on the phone. Yet PasswordBox has found a way to do this — and claims it’s not a hack or a workaround, either. “What we’re doing it’s quite revolutionary,” co-founder and CEO,Dan Robichaud, tells TechCrunch.”In the past when you are talking about native apps and native browser, no apps have been able to communicate with other apps because apps are normally sandboxed. We have workedOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/KXTZLHVnubw/
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