Re:NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authenticatio...
by vmateixeira on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @08:16AM
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How does backing up your keys in a server somewhere is better than SMS auth?
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Re:NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authenticatio...
by JohnStrange on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @01:32PM
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It's not, most likely. A working 2-factor scheme needs two devices and communication channels to the end user that are completely independent of each other.
If your mobile phone links to an account somewhere (e.g. Google account) that you can also access from the other device (e.g. a PC), and security-related settings can be changed from the other device, too, then that's insecure out-of-the-box.
Re:NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authenticatio...
by aianus on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @08:54AM
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You can encrypt them. I have no control over the idiots at my telecom who will reroute my number for anyone who provides the correct answer to some easy 'security questions'.
Re:NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authenticatio...
by vmateixeira on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @11:18AM
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I see what you mean but if you encrypt them you will end up with an extra encryption key... that you'll need to store somewhere else.. otherwise, holding just an encryption passphrase is pointless as it's just the same as having two login passwords.