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I too would "like to see [this approach] used and pushed further by other designers and developers."

I'm one of those who have been trying to do so. I created an open source approach called Handshake.js that is re-usable for developers. [1]

I presented this topic to a good crowd at JS.LA [2].

At the current time, I'm finding developers still hesitant to jump into the approach. Passwords are familiar and there are many developer tools/libraries to quickly setup the defacto username/password approach to authentication.

[1] https://sendgrid.com/blog/lets-deprecate-password-email-auth... [2] https://vimeo.com/90883185



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