[TYPO3-dev] Improving login security in TYPO3 (BE+FE)

Kay Strobach typo3 at kay-strobach.de
Wed May 16 13:10:29 CEST 2012


You may checkout the prototype (qr code is currently added in login,
will be removed for production) ;)

http://forge.typo3.org/projects/extension-authenticator/repository

Regards
Kay

Am 16.05.2012 13:04, schrieb Dave Sexton:
> On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 12:28 +0200, Kay Strobach wrote:
> 
>> so you have the second yubikey type i know now ;) - it's different from
>> what i know
> 
> Although I've been dealing with different authenticators for a long
> time, I've only recently become aware of yubikey. I know it has a
> challenge-response option, but had assumed that the OTP functionality
> was there from day one, thanks for the info.
> 
> 
>> This works, as long as you do not hash the password client side ;)
>> E.g. with challenged or superchallenged setting install tool :)
> 
> True, but it would work with rsa though. I personally prefer an auth
> service that has minimal impact on the UI unless it absolutely has to.
> 
>> You do not need to contact google at all ;) - google just provides the
>> app and the algorithm - https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
> 
> Yeah, I wasn't being clear there, I used 'Google service' to
> differentiate between the internal Typo3 service and the token
> authenticator. My auth secrets do not go anywhere near Google ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave
> 
> 


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