Upadhyay said the standard could be implemented independently of Google by any website owner or web service provider, though browsers will need to be modified to support it.
Me profitable, Koetting and fellow students Gaurav Sanghani and Sid Upadhyay plan to sign up professional tutors and collect a transaction fee when they sell time through the app.
To this aim, Upadhyay said he and Grosse have been working with the FIDO Allance, an industry group that was formed last summer to address the problems caused by the current system of password authentication.
For users, Upadhyay said the plan offers effective protection from phishing a technique that online attackers use to get you to reveal your password and man-in-the-middle attacks in which online attackers set up a fake website in order to capture your credentials, or intercept them some other way.