Schlomo Schapiro

Following up on A Login Security Architecture Without Passwords I recently had the opportunity to try out how easy it is to actually implement the "no password" login architecture. The problem to solve was publishing a small static website (an online conference program) to be accessible by several hundred people, of whom we only have the email address (that they used to sign up for the event). The event is private and the program should therefore also not be published to the open Internet, but stay private. In this example the conference program was a custom built website published via static website hosting. The code and more information on how to get started is published at github.com/schlomo/static-website-with-magic-link-auth Problem Analysis Magic link authentication (get a link via email to log in instead of bothering with a password) is in my humble and honest opinion the best — if not only — solution for this probl...