Comment DOS and Mac got folders in version 2 (Score 1) 110
I thought MS-DOS didn't get folders until 2.0, and Mac OS didn't get folders until HFS in System 2.1.
I thought MS-DOS didn't get folders until 2.0, and Mac OS didn't get folders until HFS in System 2.1.
This way someone intercepting SMTP doesn't get access to hijack account
Then how would a reset work? Or do all subscribers to your service additionally need to subscribe to mobile phone service on a supported carrier?
The combination of time (the UUID can be time boxed), activity (a successful login nullifies the UUID), and possession (control of the account's registered email address)
My concern is how to keep someone between your server and the subscriber's MUA from compromising "possession", or how to establish "possession" the first time.
Assuming the coders didn't decide to come up with their own GUID generation algorithm that is easily reverse engineered and seeded
I just use a PRNG. If I need it as a GUID, I request 120 random bits and format them as a type 4 UUID. Is that good enough?
Or to put it shorter: "Passwords and password reset codes go in separate fields."
I've implemented a similar system that keeps the hashed password and the one-time-use code in separate fields of the user table. I just wondered if there was any good way to protect the "login ticket" (the mail containing the one-time-use code) from interception in the 24 hours between when it is sent and the expiration time that we store.
In the message the portal not only assigned my username, but it also listed a temporary password that's good for 30 days! All of this transmitted cleartext.
This use of a one-time, soon-expiring autogenerated password is common in flows that include the step "To reset your password, confirm your e-mail address" or "To opt in to e-mail notifications, confirm your e-mail address". Is there an alternative, other than to either A. mail all customers a second factor of authentication used to reset a password, or B. require all customers to subscribe to mobile phone service with unlimited texting to receive resets through SMS?
Send an e-mail with a verification URL
How do you encrypt this unique verification URL on its way to the subscriber to your service?
security questions
I'm sorry; I misread this as "security theater questions". See "The Curse of the Secret Question" by Bruce Schneier and "Wish-It-Was Two Factor" by Alex Papadimoulis.
The questions we ask are not something that would normally be found in a users inbox
A lot of time, the answers to security theater questions are things that would be in a user's Facebook timeline, such as the name of the middle school that the user attended.
So how do you encrypt this UUID? And what do you send for a password reset?
If you want a bit more security than this you could do something like text the user the token instead of baking it into the URL.
But how do you send a text to the number "I don't have a cell phone" or to a land line? I tried to send the code to a land line on a couple sites and got "Unsupported carrier".
and send them an email with a link (containing a random hash that's indexed to that user in the DB) to verify the email address
But how would you encrypt "a random hash" on its way to the e-mail recipient?
Why would you need to generate a password for them, especially if you're going to email it plaintext and make them change it anyway?
Because this one-time random password serves precisely the same purpose as "a random hash" that you mention.
What's the barrier to choosing a different brand of car?
In this analogy, there are several road owners, and each road rejects all cars that lack a subscription to that road's owner. This means each of the major road owners owns a set of parallel roads that serve each destination.
But if you meant literal cars, I don't know what barrier the other AC was referring to either.
That depends on whether the algorithm knows that movies aren't real. "I see dead people" anyone?
I'll wait for the furry retelling.
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