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Oops, I didn’t realise U2F was different to 2FA. I guess you would need to ring someone up pretending to be tech support and convince them to disclose the priv
by Closi 6y ago
Oops, I didn’t realise U2F was different to 2FA.
I guess you would need to ring someone up pretending to be tech support and convince them to disclose the private key.
- Thorrez 6y agoThe private key is embedded in the hardware key, there's no way to extract it without an advanced attack involving tearing apart the key. But a practical attack along the lines of what you mentioned would be to ring someone up and convince them to disclose their cookie. Check out[1] in which the victim disclosed their cookie without the attacker even asking for it. [1] https://hackerone.com/reports/745324 https://hackerone.com/reports/745324