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Users: before you use two-factor authentication, make sure the admins do!

Dropbox is the latest internet-based service to suffer a mega-breach.  

NIST deprecates SMS as an out-of-band authentication method

When we started WiKID, we looked at using SMS to deliver one-time passcodes.  We chose not to for the simple reason that there was no way we could control the encryption and thus demonstrate the security of our solution to customers.  There wasn't any data about the possible risks or probabilities of failures (except for reliability/delivery percentages)   We looked to basic security design principles and best practices when we developed WiKID.  Could we control the encryption?  Could we generate the keys on the devices instead of using shared-secrets?  

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