[Cryptography] Two-factor: For Others, But Not Oneself?

efc at disroot.org efc at disroot.org
Fri Apr 4 05:36:46 EDT 2025



On Wed, 2 Apr 2025, Kent Borg wrote:

> 
> Do all those people who proselytize the two-factor religion (I think now
> renamed "multi-factor") actually use two-factor-anything in

It is an unpopular way of doing things, but I have used password protected
certificates to access my servers remotely over ssh for 20+ years without a single break
in.

Of course I understand that this might not be feasible for a global corporation,
but for anything of SMB size, I think this is completely doable.


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