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Facebook Delegated Recovery Protocol Offers New Password Reset Option

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Sean Michael Kerner
Feb 1, 2017

When a user loses access to an online account, a common feature in many sites is a password reset feature via email. While an email based account password reset can work for users, it’s not a particularly secure approach. Facebook wants to help improve the state of account recovery with a new open-source Delegated Recovery protocol.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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