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Can you offer an example of a situation when the second factor authentifies without identification? Assume a service S wants a confirmation that user U is inde
by nine_k 1y ago
Can you offer an example of a situation when the second factor authentifies without identification?
Assume a service S wants a confirmation that user U is indeed legitimate. The centralized auth service A could receive from S a bunch of data S knows about U, like name, address, phone, SSN, whatever S needs to know about U. Then A should respond whether the fields match the data which A knows about U, without revealing to S any additional data that A may know about U.
The problem if a centralized service is that it's a SPOF, and the juiciest target for compromising.
I still think that TOTP and personal crypto tokens like yubikey are the most resilient, and technically the easiest, solution to that.
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- pavon 1y agoAny TOTP where the user enrolls it on account creation, without going through a third-party service. Or SMS on a burner phone. Both are pseudonymous, since using the same authentication at multiple sites could be linked, but neither have to be tied to a real-world identity.