What if the username/password (or PIN) was used to release a secret (located in 
an OTP dongle) or to exercise a secret key (symmetric or asymmetric) located in 
a smartcard or TPM chip?

Reading Section 3.8, it seems it covers these cases already (or am I reading 
the wrong section). In Figure 6, the "Client" would be the code contained in 
the auth-device (or the code that invokes the underlying auth-device).

Section 3.7 on device flows does not look as if it was written with these 
portable auth-devices in mind.

/thomas/


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From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dick 
Hardt
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:40 PM
To: Luke Shepard
Cc: OAuth WG (oauth@ietf.org)
Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Username and Password flow: no captcha?

Background: The username / password flow can be used to brute force attack a 
system to find valid credentials. A captcha is presented to slow the attack 
down -- similar to what happens when you log in with an invalid password on a 
webpage.

The captcha would be displayed by the app for the user to enter in if the AS 
thinks it is getting attacked from that IP or whatever. The captcha does not 
require a web browser -- it actually does make sense for most of the Facebook 
clients.

The captcha was dropped because there were a number of aspects that had not 
been standardized, so it was decided to drop it from the core.


On 2010-06-07, at 11:30 AM, Luke Shepard wrote:


The username/password flow is designed to work in a situation where there is no 
web browser available. At least at Facebook, none of our clients implement 
captcha - it doesn't really make sense in many contexts.

A provider is still welcome to offer a non-standard captcha support but it 
shouldn't be part of the core spec.

On Jun 7, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Andrew Arnott 
andrewarn...@gmail.com<mailto:andrewarn...@gmail.com> wrote:


In WRAP, there was a CAPTCHA in this profile, but I don't see it in the latest 
OAuth 2.0 draft.  Since I've already implemented the CAPTCHA stuff from WRAP, 
I'll leave it there if the OAuth 2.0 is likely to pick it up, or rip it out now 
if OAuth 2.0 decided it wasn't necessary.

Does anyone from the WG have something they can say on the subject?
--
Andrew Arnott
"I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your 
right to say it." - S. G. Tallentyre

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