On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Richard Barnes <rbar...@mozilla.com> wrote:

>
> > On Oct 21, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.nz/2014/10/strengthening-2-step-verification-with.html
> > We should support this.
>
> Maybe I'm just jaded, but given that we're currently in the process of
> phasing out custom APIs for one specialized hardware platform, I'm not
> super enthusiastic about adding support for another one.
>

Which specialized hardware platform is that?  Also, don't the FIDO Alliance
specs cover more than just one platform?


> There's a conversation going on between some folks in the platform
> security and FxOS security teams working on an overall strategy for secure
> hardware, so that we don't have to cut fresh code every time someone comes
> up with a new identity scheme.


I doubt that's what roc was suggesting.  But it's hard to say more without
more details on the said overall strategy.


> We will hopefully have something baked enough to share around soon.
>
> Note that that blog post glosses over a couple of important details of the
> Chrome implementation.  First, it's non-native; it's a bundled extension,
> like Flash.  And second, it's only enabled for google.com, so it's not
> really a web-facing feature.
>


-- 
Ehsan
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