Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-11-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Edward Jaffe wrote: Anyone tried this yet? Is it as slick as it looks? http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_tn3270.htm One of our guys downloaded the free (Lite) version to his iPhone and it worked great in an in-house test. The only issue was that the Lite version does not have PF key support.

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-28 Thread R.S.
Denis Gäbler wrote: And the user may then need to carry a smartcard for each account. My bank has the concept of combining multiple accounts to one login, so only one smartcard is enough. Your bank has, but other companies not. So, people still need multiple tokens. Last but not least:

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-27 Thread Ulrich Boche
Tom Longfellow wrote: Someday, someone is going to give me a rational, non paranoid reason for why presenting a TSO login to the web is any less secure than WEB front- end authentication. I have heard many arguements (DOS attacks, brute force password hacks etc). but each and every one of

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:04:50 +0100, Ulrich Boche wrote: Tom Longfellow wrote: If SSL encryption is good enough to protect billions of dollars of credit card numbers, why is it insufficient to protect my TSO userid and password? The problem you run into when opening the Internet for any

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-27 Thread R.S.
Paul Gilmartin wrote: [...] How have eBay and PayPal addressed this problem? If client certificates or secondary authentication prevent D-o-S attacks which would keep their administrators pretty busy, can't those techniques be adapted to TSO logons? Good point. However I strongly doubt wether

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-27 Thread Denis Gäbler
using the first userid that he found in syslog for some testing). Just my 2 cent. Denis. -Original Message- From: R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 4:04 pm Subject: Re: TN3270 for iPhone Paul Gilmartin wrote:  [...]  How have eBay

Authentication (was: TN3270 for iPhone)

2008-10-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:27:41 -0400, Denis Gäbler wrote: My point is, that Ebay sent me a secure id card which can be used instead of a fixed password. Userid password is not state of the art security these days. State of the art banks use smartcards in combination with userid and password in

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2008-10-27 Thread Ulrich Boche
Original Message Subject: Re: TN3270 for iPhone Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:04:17 +0100 From: Ulrich Boche [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Denis Gäbler wrote: My point is, that Ebay sent me

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-27 Thread R.S.
Denis Gäbler wrote: My point is, that Ebay sent me a secure id card which can be used instead of a fixed password. Userid password is not state of the art security these days. Yes. However it's like democracy: very bad system, but there is nothing better. And yes, I'm aware of smartcards,

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:59:27 +0100, R.S. wrote: State of the art banks use smartcards in combination with userid and password in addition to indexed TANs for each transaction. Such banks have to pay for millions of smartcards ,including replacement, secure distribution, lost/stolen cards,

Re: Authentication (was: TN3270 for iPhone)

2008-10-27 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:55:44 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:27:41 -0400, Denis Gäbler wrote: My point is, that Ebay sent me a secure id card which can be used instead of a fixed password. Userid password is not state of the art security these days. State

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-27 Thread Denis Gäbler
finals is more hurting than 1 day without TSO access ;-) Denis. -Original Message- From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 6:07 pm Subject: Re: TN3270 for iPhone On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:59:27 +0100, R.S. wrote: State of the art

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-27 Thread Ted MacNEIL
A z/OS exposed to the web should also make sure that nobody can guess Started Task Userids, when they are revoked after 3 false passwords that has nice impacts to your z/OS (Happened to me once due to a user using the first userid that he found in syslog for some testing). If you make the

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-27 Thread John McKown
A z/OS exposed to the web should also make sure that nobody can guess Started Task Userids, when they are revoked after 3 false passwords that has nice impacts to your z/OS (Happened to me once due to a user using the first userid that he found in syslog for some testing). Strange. It should

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-24 Thread Timothy Sipples
It looks very cool! Nice find. However, a lot of organizations don't want to open a TN3270(E) port, even an SSL encrypted one, to the public Internet without some extra barrier. So you might have to combine this MochaSoft client with one of those SecurID key fob systems (or equivalent) to issue a

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-24 Thread R.S.
Edward Jaffe wrote: Anyone tried this yet? Is it as slick as it looks? http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_tn3270.htm I can say for their product on other platforms. Product was poor and support was insolent: they adviced me to use another product if I don't like their (I wanted to solve some

TN3270 for Iphone

2008-10-24 Thread Steve Bireley
We have seen issues testing telnet connected emulators from various wireless devices including Windows phones, Blackberrys, Iphones, tablet computers, PDAs, and laptops. The main problem is that switching cells or mobile access points drops the telnet connection and user session. It is ideal

TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-23 Thread Edward Jaffe
Anyone tried this yet? Is it as slick as it looks? http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_tn3270.htm -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/

Re: TN3270 for iPhone

2008-10-23 Thread Jousma, David
@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: TN3270 for iPhone Anyone tried this yet? Is it as slick as it looks? http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_tn3270.htm -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http