Victor, To throw a new wrinkle in the equation: Google Authenticator codes can be intercepted by a phishing page. U2F protocol is even better, and can't be intercepted via phishing.
There are U2F libraries in ports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor Cheers, Rob On Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 04:01 Victor Sudakov <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I've used OPIE for many years (and S/Key before that) to login to my > system from untrusted terminals (cafes, libraries etc). > > Now I've read an opinion that OPIE is outdated (and indeed its upstream > distribution is gone) and that pam_google_authenticator would be more > secure: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237270 > > Is that truly so? With 20 words in OPIE and only 6 digits in > pam_google_authenticator, how strong is pam_google_authenticator against > brute force and other attacks? > > > > -- > Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN > 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
