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A good write-up. Thank you for taking the time and the effort. Complex topic, and l believe, well covered, with a delicate balance struck between very deep deta
by T3OU-736 6y ago
A good write-up. Thank you for taking the time and the effort. Complex topic, and l believe, well covered, with a delicate balance struck between very deep details and keeping it accessible.
Some thoughts:
If possible, adding other TOTP apps to the list by name as examples of non-Google apps (which, for a long time, did not back up the entries, causing annoyance, gnashing of teeth, and despair) may be in order? Or at least mention that not all TOTP apps support backups?
Around the SMS topic and use of cells phones for auth - no mention of push-based setups? Authy and Duo come to mind. More secure than SMS (when SSL certs are properly setup), and they do use the biometric auth to validate auth request. The option to indicate the authentication context (like location of the request origin from GeoIP) does help in reasoning about the request validity.
As an aside, I really do wish U2F tokens would have an option, on the device, to indicate which URL (or some other, harder-to-fake ID) of what is requesting auth. The use case I have seen is that people leave their U2F tokens plugged in, and effectively condition themselves to simply tap the button every time it blinks.
A side project for my "copious spare time" /s
Edit: fixed skipped words.