[Cryptography] Security weakness in iCloud keychain
William Allen Simpson
william.allen.simpson at gmail.com
Tue May 8 21:28:46 EDT 2018
On 5/8/18 2:04 AM, Jon Callas wrote:
> [...] If this manager could go out and change the password for you automagically as well, then as the life of any given random password approaches a single login, then that simple password system approaches the security of that type of two-factor, while gaining the benefit that a stolen database of shared secrets has ever-decaying usefulness, which lowers the incentive to hack that database in the first place. Single factor with automated change is arguably better than two-factor.
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Here we are almost 25 years later back at Photuris....
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