Re: Strong authentication for PayPal versus WebPayments

On 2014-05-12 19:11, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 5/11/14 7:08 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>> >From my point-of-view there's only problem: I don't understand how this
>> would be and how it could address the NASCAR login problem:-(
>>
>> Anders
> 
> NASCAR isn't necessarily a problem for end-users. This more of a problem 
> for programmers that have to write code for different authentication 
> protocols. We have to keep these concerns loosely coupled.
> 

>From my (strong authentication) perspective, WebPayments and WebID are
trying to build cool stuff on top of a security platform which haven't
been upgraded since 1995 when it was introduced by Netscape.

The competition in the form of Google and PayPal have come up with a nice
security platform (U2F - Universal Two Factor authentication) but unfortunately
it squarely matches the WebID and WebPayment use-cases.

I won't spend more time on this issue, I leave it to the market to decide :-)

Anders

Received on Monday, 12 May 2014 17:47:15 UTC