The WiKID Blog, musings on two-factor authentication, information security and some other stuff.
Busting the Biometric Myth - once and for all
Posted by: admin 5 years, 11 months ago
Everyone repeat after me: Biometrics are terrible authenticators.
Way too many people, even security and identity people see biometrics as "magic security dust" for two-factor authentication. It is way past time that we, the security community bust this myth. It is important because, unlike spending on firewalls which is insufficient but necessary, biometric infrastructure will need to be ripped out and thrown away. Any VC that is considering investing in a biometric company is wasting money that could be invested in a company that might make a difference.
PCI 3.0 draft out
Posted by: admin 6 years ago
Draft guidelines for PCI 3.0 have been released, providing a glimpse into what the new requirements will be.
Notes on Twitter's two-factor authentication
Posted by: admin 6 years ago
Welcome to club.
We're glad to see Twitter moving away from SMS, which has numerous defects to an authentication system that uses public key cryptography. Since WiKID was founded over 10 years ago, we have believed that asymmetric encryption is the best way to do authentication in the connected world.
SMS, Trojans and Two-factor authentication
Posted by: admin 6 years, 1 month ago
I've often said that SMS is a weak basis for two-factor authentication. It is unencrypted and unreliable. It is too easy to take over someone's account. I was reminded of it today by this puff piece on American Banker - an ad for RSA's anti-trojan services. Obviously, RSA sells anti-trojan services and two-factor authentication. We sell two-factor authentication as well, but not SMS-based. (We use software tokens that use asymmetric (public/private) keys.)
HTML5 Token
Posted by: admin 6 years, 2 months ago
For the record, our open-source HTML5 token was released in 2010 and is available on our sourceforge site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikid-twofactor/files/HTML5_Token_Client/.
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