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And you could do it with pencil and paper if you wanted. If you were very quick at maths. The point is that it places a requirement on the user and interrupts
by dingaling 4y ago
And you could do it with pencil and paper if you wanted. If you were very quick at maths.
The point is that it places a requirement on the user and interrupts their workflow when they just want to Get Stuff Done. And if it stops working then the burden is on the user to make it work again.
- ok123456 4y agoThat's true of any authentication mechanism. It works until it doesn't. If you wanted to work this into a traditional terminal workflow "generateToken my.host && ssh my.host" TOPT is the least worst way of doing 2FA. I wish I lived in a world where this sort of thing wasn't necessary, but if you have a service where there are accounts that are worth a lot of money in the real world, you need to have some kind of 2FA.