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I'm a little confused. First, they say: > login.gov implements the latest National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards for secure authentica
by jlgaddis 9y ago
I'm a little confused. First, they say:
> login.gov implements the latest National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards for secure authentication and verification.
Then:
> Two factor authentication requires that you login with your password and a code that we send to your phone.
I assume they're referring to SMS (I see references to Twilio)... but didn't NIST just recently say that SMS wasn't acceptable for 2FA?
Quite pleased to read this, though:
> We welcome external review of our privacy-protection measures. All of our code is available for public inspection in an open-source repository.
-- https://login.gov/security/ https://login.gov/security/
- Eridrus 9y agoSMS isn't great for security, but it's better than nothing and it scales well.