Apr. 7, 2011 Faster, more secure logins for multimedia sites
might be possible thanks to a new approach to website and
database security. Boolean logins would allow thousands if not
millions of users to more quickly access the content to which
they are entitled, such as music, video and images. The same
approach might also reduce the risk of hackers accessing the
materials illicitly. Classic user identification requires the
remote user sending a username and a password to the system to
which they want to be authenticated. The system looks up the
username in its locally stored database and if the password
submitted matches the stored password, then access is granted.
This method for identification works under the assumption that
there exist no malicious users and that their local terminals
cannot be infected by viruses. Increasingly, however, these
assumptions are too naïve. Not all users can be assumed to have
good intentions. Technology continuously facilitates the capture
of transactions in wireless channel