Hi Kevin, On Sun, Mar 31, 2024, at 7:31 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: >> Do we require 2FA for provenpackager yet? > > No. I am a provenpackager and do not have 2FA enabled (nor do I want it to > be). > >> People would say, justifiably so, that it was absolutely unacceptable for >> us to be allowing single-factor authentication for contributors to a >> general-purpose operating system in 2024. It is. > > This is nonsense propaganda. Most 2FA implementations cannot even guarantee > that the second factor is not stored right next to the first factor. Open > standards that do not depend on commercial hardware or telecommunication > operators, such as TOTP, cannot guarantee it by design. Any 2FA app that > works on my PinePhone is also going to work directly on my computer, so you > have no way to enforce that I use a different device for the second factor. > > 2FA is pointless security theater that just makes it a pain to contribute, > when we are all this time talking about lowering, not rising, the barrier to > entry.
I don't quite agree with you. Two factor authentication whether an actual second factor device or not does prevent credential stuffing which is a common attack method that is easy to perform. It is when people take databases of previously leaked passwords and try them on other accounts that belong to the same person. Since two factors are generally unique per login situation they can't be stuffed in the same way. Of course there are many things two factor does not protect against. Regards, Simon -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
