Google, password-free authentication Chrome OS

Google eyes password-free authentication in Chrome OS | Internet & Media - CNET News: " . . . The chrome.screenlockPrivate feature would let an app wake up a Chromebook or Chromebox if it judges a person to be present based on trusted data from Bluetooth, NFC, or USB ports. "A platform app may use the USB, NFC, and/or Bluetooth APIs to communicate with a secondary trusted device such as a phone, ring, watch, or badge, thereby allowing that trusted device to serve as an alternative form of authentication for the user," said a design document pointed out by Chrome watcher and Google employee Francois Beaufort...."

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