Re:Beyond Passwords: 2FA, U2F and Google Advanced Protection
by xaduha on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:18AM
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Smartcards aren't dead, they are all around us in sim cards and credit cards.
> They died when everybody ditched Java applets for web.
How's that relevant? Are you saying no one uses Java anymore?
Re:Beyond Passwords: 2FA, U2F and Google Advanced Protection
by IloveHN84 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:37PM
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Well, Java for frontend / client side not anymore, since Java applets are insecure and can be exploited easily.
Re:Beyond Passwords: 2FA, U2F and Google Advanced Protection
by xaduha on Thursday November 15, 2018 @03:44PM
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Java applets for browsers and Javacards have nothing in common except the name and the language.
Re:Beyond Passwords: 2FA, U2F and Google Advanced Protection
by Technetium_Hat on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:20AM
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Many smart cards use an extremely minimal version of java, so I imagine that java applets were able to interact with them more easily.
Re:Beyond Passwords: 2FA, U2F and Google Advanced Protection
by xaduha on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:29AM
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I'm not saying that writing for Javacards is easy, but that's not the problem here. There is plenty of software written already
https://github.com/EnigmaBridge/javacard-curated-list
It's just didn't catch on, there's no thriving community around it. You have the software, you have the hardware (search for JCOP21 or JCOP3 on Aliexpress), but no users.
I wish they were more useful and programmable without a Java applet (eg. Custom C/C++ driver)