@RoryAlsop If I went to my boss and was just like, "Meh, I could do it, but I can't be bothered." I feel like intelligence is not the word he would use to describe me.
@raz Cats think nothing of our human ways. They go, "haha - you work! I get fed just by being cute and fluffy. Now let me go back to my meditation on the nature of string theory"
I think there are none. They would be just slower and useless.
They might protect you from basically the same threat model.
Am I right or am I overlooking something?
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@Amelia "hello sir, i have moneyz for you, i need a transaction fee of 400 u s dollarz" is an attack that (sadly) works regardless of an authentication scheme.
Everyone, please welcome @MadaraUchiha and @Amelia - we were having a grand conversation in TL on security when @JeffFerland pointed out we should move it here
And before anyone tries any knee jerk reactions to @MadaraUchiha's post, he is really interested in the objections to SQRL and wants to know why it is a bad idea
I don't know the contents of my private key, and giving away the private key is an action I never have to do (as opposed to giving out my password), so requesting it from me will sound weird.
So again, I fail to see what kind of social attack works here
Now instead of finding your key out as you authenticate, I just authenticate when you go to sleep, utterly ruin everything you love, burn it to the ground and then take a dump on it. For science.
@MadaraUchiha to be perfectly honest, I dont remember the details of SQRL right now, and dont have time right now to review it. I just remember how cluelessly broken it was...
But moreover, the instigator of the idea is well known to be a security idiot and cause damage often.
@Amelia @RoryAlsop can't get old. getting old means that the concept of time and aging applies to you. @RoryAlsop predates time, and thus it doesn't. He just is old
@MadaraUchiha I don't really recall the technical details of the protocol and I don't really care about it but I'll point out one obvious problem. You are entirely reliant on the "app" to do the right thing. Passwords have no such issues.
1. no, the original spec is what is misleading. it was reviewed several times over, by various experts - including a bona fide leading cryptographer. All shown that using SQRL is ridiculously incompetent.
2. Good - that is the point. Hopefully nobody will be negligent enough to actually use it.
Also, even if the protocol has no obvious flaws it has absolutely zero chance of catching on because it is designed by a single person with obvious reputation issues in the security community. It is therefore a waste of time to spend any effort on the topic.
@MadaraUchiha No, with passwords you are absolutely not reliant on password managers for remembering secure passwords. It helps but it's not necessary.
@MadaraUchiha How are you planning to get your open source SQRL client on iOS again?
@MadaraUchiha I didn't make any point relating to that at all, I said I don't have to rely on My password manager to do any "magic" it's an encrypted repository of text
@TerryChia My password for my password manager itself is a diceware password with around 12-16 words in it that I had to memorise over the course of 2 months
Then your choices are a password manager, a predictable passowrd generation scheme (the site + my phone number), using the same password for everything, or a password manager.
And for social engineering, well you make a www.paypa1.com site, and present the real paypal QR code to the victim. Then it logs you in. Or am I missing something ?
Oh for the social part, you send a fake email asking the person to check his history
@MadaraUchiha You clearly do not want to accept my points so I'm done. Like I said I have no interest in debating a protocol that has a less than zero chance of seeing widespread adoption.
I object to removing my blog post. If you disagree, feel free to write up something of your own.
@Amelia Not just implement, but use as well. Single factor authentication using a password imposes fewer demands on application users than any other system.
@TerryChia don't make it personal. Your blog post should remain for 2 reasons: It is correct, and the fact that it appears high in google results makes it more unlikely that somebody might make the mistake of using it.
You know what's also deadly annoying? Using a password manager, and then having to enter account creds on devices that don't support password managers or keyboards. Like entering my Netflix password onto a DVD player. Such a hassle.
The burdens I must bear, all in the name of security. I tell you what.
but one last word to @MadaraUchiha and @Amelia - there really are a ton of incredibly smart people here, who are very focused on precisely this type of thing. There are a lot of aspects to consider, a lot of threats and risks from different directions. Modeling all of these, in addition to usability aspects, is what they do best. It is tricky to avoid cargo culting it, when basing on so called "best practices" - thats why it is so much work to model each context specifically.