[security-dev] TOTPCredentails should not be associated with Password

Bill Burke bburke at redhat.com
Tue Jun 11 11:13:39 EDT 2013


And this is wrong behavior.  Let's say I lost my iphone and need a new 
token.  User shouldn't have to change their password as well.

On 6/11/2013 11:03 AM, Pedro Igor Silva wrote:
> You're right. In order to update the secret key is necessary to specify the password too. You're not required to provide the exact password, given that it will be updated with what you provided.
>
> Regarding multiple tokens, we can easily support that changing the handler's logic.
>
> Would be nice a PR :). If you want to, I can work on something do those changes.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: security-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:19:56 AM
> Subject: [security-dev] TOTPCredentails should not be associated with	Password
>
> Right now, AFAICT, you cannot update the TOTP secret key without also
> knowing the password.  I"d like to not have TOTP classes inherit from
> the corresponding Password classes.  I can implement and provide a pull
> request if you agree.
>
> Another thing to think about down the road is that you may want to allow
> multiple tokens.  Tokens generated by different devices owned by the user.
>

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