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One costs money and requires a physical item, the other is commonly free, and you can sign in from multiple locations/devices. Hardware tokens have only manage
by Someone1234 5y ago
One costs money and requires a physical item, the other is commonly free, and you can sign in from multiple locations/devices.
Hardware tokens have only managed to prove that hardware tokens won't ever take off due to their inherent limitations and liabilities.
- postalrat 5y agoMake them required, they will take off. Most phones made in the past few years can operate as one.
- fsflover 5y ago> Most phones Are you going to force people to use specific smartphones?
- lxgr 5y agoHow many smartphones these days are not running iOS or Android? Even then, nothing keeps the vendors of alternative smartphone OSes from implementing a FIDO platform authenticator.
- fsflover 5y ago> How many smartphones these days are not running iOS or Android? Those that fight the duopoly and allow user freedom: Librem 5 and Pinephone. I really hope that it could use an open standard. Then, it's probably fine.
- lxgr 5y agoFIDO is an open standard! https://fidoalliance.org/fido2/ https://fidoalliance.org/fido2/ Nothing is preventing either OS from implementing it, either as a platform authenticator or via NFC, USB or Bluetooth support for external authenticators.
- wruza 5y agoDo you mean like via NFC? That would be great, are there viable solutions for windows/etc?