- From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 08:11:13 +0200
- To: "public-identity@w3.org" <public-identity@w3.org>
Sort of linked to the "eternal" HTTPS Client Cert Authentication UI issues, I would like to highlight a related problem which is much bigger and that is the fact that we after 20 years with the web still mainly use unauthenticated Cardnumbers + "passwords" (CCV) printed in clear on credit-cards for authorizing web-payments. AKA known as "Card Not Present" transactions Just about every month there are reports on massive break-ins in servers which would be fairly useless if there were a useful authentication scheme involved. In fact, even the "secure" EMV cards used in the EU and Asia, are exactly as susceptible to these attacks as their non-secure US counterparts, since the lowest common denominator (the web) must be supported . Obviously the entire authentication space is in a poor condition compared to the rest of the web. Anders
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