Jerry Leichter wrote:
NFC?
Near Field Communications - the wireless equivalent of
whispering in someone's ear. Ideally, a NFC chip should
only be able to talk to something that is an inch or so
away, and it should be impossible to eavesdrop from more
than a foot or so away.
Lots of people
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Jerry Leichter leich...@lrw.com wrote:
The trend is for this to get worse, with
network-wide shared authentication via OpenID or whatever other standard
catches on.
Not to derail this, but OpenID is flexible enough to permit
fine-grained authentication as well
On Nov 1, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:25 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
A couple of days ago, I pointed to an article claiming that these
were easy to break, and asked if anyone knew of security analyses
of these facilities.
I must say, I'm very
On Nov 2, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote:
- Jerry Leichter leich...@lrw.com wrote:
for iPhone's and iPod Touches, which are regularly used to hold
passwords (for mail, at the least).
I would not (do not) trust the iPhone (or iPod Touch) to protect a
high value password.
A couple of days ago, I pointed to an article claiming that these were
easy to break, and asked if anyone knew of security analyses of these
facilities.
I must say, I'm very disappointed with the responses. Almost everyone
attacked the person quoted in the article. The attacks they
