On Thursday, August 7, 2014, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Do you have anything specific in mind? Hard to say how feasible something is/evaluate without being more specific.
Most non-password alternatives that I can think of (e.g. Having public private key pairs or something) have the problem that they can't really be integrated well enough into a web browser based environment that folks other than the most technical of users find them an acceptable burden.
--bawolff
I've long wondered about that. Are there really no browser based public key based solutions? Are there any fundamental reasons why that is like that other than that it never got implemented, or never became popular?
It seems like the "right" solution for the password problem.
-Martijn
On 8/7/14, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com javascript:;> wrote:
I think we should start looking at alternative authentication systems especially for high risk accounts. There are several variations on the theme of one-time passwords that I think could bd explored.
Pine On Aug 6, 2014 11:05 PM, "Brian Wolff" <bawolff@gmail.com javascript:;>
wrote:
On Aug 6, 2014 8:57 AM, "svetlana" <svetlana@fastmail.com.au
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, at 21:49, Andre Klapper wrote:
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 22:05 -0700, Pine W wrote:
After reading this [1] I am wondering if Wikimedia should start
taking
steps to reduce reliance on usernames and passwords.
What "steps" do you refer to, or is this intentionally vague? Disallowing usernames and logins? Two-step authentication/verification? Something else?
andre
from what i could read and parse: use less of external things like skype and google accounts so that there is only 1 username for everything
The solution to stolen credentials is to combine all credentials so
that a
single credential can control everything?
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