Re:WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensi...
by tomato2juice on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:15PM
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> Dude what? I don't think anybody uses that. I've never heard of it before.
Ya, the first time I heard of it I had the same reaction, but it's legitimate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco... That page is quite old, but lots of bodies use it: http://srp.stanford.edu/links.html
Amazon uses it in a service: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/am...
Also, as another commenter said, Apple uses it in Homekit.
I don't see any plugins or libraries to add to any of the huge number of exiting authentication libraries. Has it even been subject to a hostile security audit? Has it been put in a place where it will face a serious state-sponsored attack and performed at least as well as existing systems?