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SQRL does not give the real identity to a phishing site. Full stop. Now a phishing site can do a fake SQRL login, accepting any credentials. But the client wil
by tatersolid 8y ago
SQRL does not give the real identity to a phishing site. Full stop.
Now a phishing site can do a fake SQRL login, accepting any credentials. But the client will send a different identity (derived keypair) with no information linking to the real identity, so the phisher will have no information with which to persinalize their fake site.
The user might press on anyway and divulge some sensitive data if the fake site is really convincing. But the phisher cannot use any credentials passed to them against the “real” site.
WebAuthn does NOT solve this “look-like site exists and accepts any credentials” problem either, nor does any other authentication mechanism.
The only protection against against what you describe is preventing registration of look-alike domain names entirely, and ensuring all DNS is secured with DNSsec or TLS. Good luck with that; it’s been tried.