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William Woodruff

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  • PyPI now supports two factor authentication
  • Two factor authentication
    • First factor: your password or something you know
    • Second Factor: something that you (and only you) have
  • Why 2FA?
    • Adding a second factor prevents/mitigates data leak
      • but 2FA isn't panacea
  • 2 FA methods
    • SMS/voice Don't use it
      • Problem: Nothing about the phone network is secure
        • e.g., SS7 attacks, SIM ports & jacking, SMS interception
      • do not use it in new service
    • HOTP-based physical keys
      • Special device
      • high cost
    • TOTP (Time-based one-time passwords ): your baseline 2FA
      • Symmetric cryptography with a single shared secret
      • design suggestion
        • do:
          • require users to enter a TOTP code
          • provide both a provisioning URI and a QR code
        • don't
          • use uncommon TOTP parameters (bad client support)
          • nag users for TOTP codes on every single action
    • WebAuthn (U2F)
      • Asymmetric, public-key crpyography
      • Hardware agnostic
      • Supported by most browser (W3C standard)
      • design suggestion
        • do
          • allow anonymous attestation (ECDAA) (e.g., TouchID)
          • support multiple WebAuthn keys per user
          • force user to tag/label their keys
        • don't
          • make users choose between TOTP and WebAuthn → Let them do both
          • use us2.js or any other pre-WebAuthn lib
  • Conclusion
    • You should add 2FA to your services and phasing out SMS 2FA
    • TOTP
    • WebAuthn

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