On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 4:25 AM Kevin Price <k...@osnanet.de> wrote:
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> 2FA is intended to raise the bar of stealing your login from just one
> leaked known secret (username/passphrase) to two _strictly_ separate
> bars. The latter must not be yet another secret, but might be physical
> custody of some given device. In that way, a merely leaked passphrase
> won't give immediate access to your login, neither would that device, if
> only that was stolen.

The three security properties of a second factor are:

   1. entropy
   2. replay resistance
   3. phishing resistance

Jeff

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