On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:17 PM, Nuwan Dias <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:12 PM, Ishara Karunarathna <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Though challenge question is not secure mechanism this is a basic stuff
>> client expect from an IAM solution.
>> And having another recovery mechanism with this can help to make it
>> strong as well.
>>
>> So I'm still doubt on dropping this. And if we are completely dropping
>> this. We should have first class support for other
>> recovery mechanisms and well documented on this.
>>
>
> That's the idea right? I was under the impression that we will at least
> have an email based recovery mechanism in place. If we're saying challenge
> questions are our primary mode of account recovery, that's not right IMO.
> AFAIS, challenge questions are 'good to have' and email recovery is 'must
> have'.
>
Yes challenge question should not be a primary mechanism. But still its
better to be available in the product.

>
>> -Ishara
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Danushka Fernando <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If everyone had it in past and no longer using it, big +1 for removing
>>> it. Only concern is about existing customers. If we can explain the
>>> rationale behind removing it we are in clear I guess.
>>>
>>> @Sewmini
>>> Yes there is a reviewed user story for this. But when we discuss about
>>> some implementation details today, we realized that lot of people had this
>>> and removed this due to vulnerabilities in it. Hence Indunil started this
>>> discussion.
>>>
>>> Thanks & Regards
>>> Danushka Fernando
>>> Senior Software Engineer
>>> WSO2 inc. http://wso2.com/
>>> Mobile : +94716332729 <+94%2071%20633%202729>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 18, 2017 6:04 PM, "KasunG Gajasinghe" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Security questions are a thing of the past. Google, Facebook they all
>>>> have removed the security questions based password recovery mechanisms. [1]
>>>> [2]  So, +1 to drop this support in IS 6.
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/12/google-drops-su
>>>> pport-for-security.html
>>>> [2] https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=815
>>>> 382261879187
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Nuwan Dias <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I personally have never used a security question to recover any of the
>>>>> accounts of which I forgot passwords. Its always a recovery through email
>>>>> or mobile. Therefore I don't see this as a valuable feature.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When an answer to a question is personal, the question itself is
>>>>> probably personal too. Therefore I don't think an admin can decide on what
>>>>> questions to be asked from you. Its unlikely you'll remember an answer to 
>>>>> a
>>>>> question which is not very relevant to you. If we're doing this (I'm
>>>>> negative on implementing the feature itself too :)), I think we should let
>>>>> the user decide his own questions and answers.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Appreciate your ideas on this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks and Regards
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Indunil Upeksha Rathnayake
>>>>>> Software Engineer | WSO2 Inc
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Software Architect - WSO2, Inc. http://wso2.com
>>>>> email : [email protected]
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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