You are correct for SSH. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 09:07 Dan Langille <d...@langille.org> wrote:
> On Jun 18, 2019, at 9:02 AM, Robert Simmons <rsimmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 04:01 Victor Sudakov <v...@mpeks.tomsk.su> 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 Now I've read an opinion that OPIE is outdated (and indeed its upstream 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, > > 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 > > > > If my Google Authenticator codes are on my phone, and I'm entering them > into my ssh session, how is a phishing page involved? > > — > Dan Langille > http://langille.org/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"