Re: [HELP] Custom 2 step authentication where the user's password is a public key

Hey Eric, thanks for your reply. The scheme will work as a restfull service (i use tastypie) and is designed specifically to work for a bitcoin cloud backup service. The reason we want to implement such a scheme is so if the password is compromised, an attacker cant download the encrypted data

Re: [HELP] Custom 2 step authentication where the user's password is a public key

> Den 09/01/2015 kl. 12.28 skrev Alon Muroch : > > Hey everyone, i've been thinking of implementing the following custom > authentication scheme: > • User generates a public and private key pair > • when creating a new user, the user name is as usual but the

[HELP] Custom 2 step authentication where the user's password is a public key

Hey everyone, i've been thinking of implementing the following custom authentication scheme: 1. User generates a public and private key pair 2. when creating a new user, the user name is as usual but the password is the public key (in clear hex) 3. For login: 1. the user asks