On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Indunil Upeksha Rathnayake <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Currently we are working on implementing C5 user portal in IS. Appreciate
> your suggestions/ideas for the following concerns regarding challenge
> questions.
>
> *1)  Is it necessary to include challenge questions in IS 6.0.0 as a
> recovery option?*
> Seems like secret questions are neither secure nor reliable enough to be
> used as a account recovery mechanism. And also most of the vendors has
> completely removed support for security questions including google. In C5,
> security question sets will be some what strengthen the recovery and makes
> it hard to guess the questions. But seems like need to consider whether it
> need to be implemented or not.
>

If challenge questions are unlikely to me used in a real deployment due to
security vulanarabilities, I think we should not implement it. Specially
consideraing the effort to implement the feature. (e.g. Chanllange
questions presentation flow, internationalization).



>
> *2)  Is it necessary to include security questions in user self sign-up
> page? If needed, following way is appropriate?*
> As we have planned, in C5, admin can create several security question sets
> and can configure the minimum number of questions that need to be answered
> by a user. So that in self sign up UI when populating security questions to
> a user,
>
>    - security questions need to be categorized according to the security
>    question sets
>    - all the sets need to be populated for the user
>    - user can select any number of security questions from different sets
>    not from a same set
>    - need to validate whether the user has answered for the minimum
>    number of questions
>
> Appreciate your ideas on this.
>
> Thanks and Regards
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> Indunil Upeksha Rathnayake
> Software Engineer | WSO2 Inc
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