I've been digging some more, and found that the Open Financial Exchange group has already updated the OFX specs to cover multifactor authentication. The new spec version numbers are 1.0.3, 2.0.3, and 2.1.1. Specs available from: http://www.ofx.net/ofx/de_spec.asp The new specs have a May 1, 2006 date on the page footers. The files on the web have creation dates in August or September. Most of the changes are in chapter 2 in the description of the signon request.
So, it looks to me as if the only reason to drop ofxdirectconnect is if the banks don't want to force their customers to upgrade Quicken/ Money yet again. There is some additional work required on the bank server end, but not any more that is required for web interface changes. It'll be interesting to see the timing and nature of the banks' communication with customers on this issue. I haven't heard anything from any of my banks yet. OTOH, the aqbanking ofxdirectconnect backend will need maintenance. And at this point, it is hard to tell just how the various banks are going to choose to implement the new MFA features available. Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Aqbanking-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aqbanking-devel
