Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-06 Thread Ian G
On 7/02/11 2:38 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Gervase Markham: Goal: fix bug 570252. Provide 2-factor authentication for some Bugzilla accounts. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570252 The IP address restriction is a pretty strong factor. Basically, it means that a potential attack

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-06 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 02/06/2011 05:38 PM, From Florian Weimer: The IP address restriction is a pretty strong factor. Florian, tell me what your IP is and I'll log into Bugzilla next time with that IP. Getting to know your IP is fairly easy too. -- Regards Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd. XMPP:start...@s

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marsh Ray: > My personal opinion is that IP source addresses are not actually a > particularly strong factor. Here are some reasons: It really depends on what you're dealing with. Mozilla shouldn't disclose that to the general public, so it's difficult to make good recommendations. >> As a re

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-06 Thread Marsh Ray
On 02/06/2011 09:38 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: The IP address restriction is a pretty strong factor. Basically, it means that a potential attacker would have to compromise a device quite close to the user (possible the terminal itself). We end up in a deep discussion about this every few weeks

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Gervase Markham: > Goal: fix bug 570252. Provide 2-factor authentication for some > Bugzilla accounts. > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570252 The IP address restriction is a pretty strong factor. Basically, it means that a potential attacker would have to compromise a device qui

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-03 Thread Martin Paljak
On Feb 2, 2011, at 7:15 AM, aerow...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Marsh Ray wrote: >> On 02/01/2011 02:41 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote: >> >> What about the client cert in a smart card? >> >> That's old and standard and supported by Mozilla. >> >> I don't know what kind

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-03 Thread Martin Paljak
Hello, On Feb 1, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Marsh Ray wrote: > On 02/01/2011 10:56 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: >> Goal: fix bug 570252. Provide 2-factor authentication for some Bugzilla >> accounts. >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570252 >> >> Sub-goal: do it in a way which doesn't involve

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-03 Thread Anders Rundgren
Matej Kurpel wrote: On 3. 2. 2011 9:21, Anders Rundgren wrote: Matej Kurpel wrote: On 2. 2. 2011 13:37, Gervase Markham wrote: On 01/02/11 18:08, Matej Kurpel wrote: @Q4: I am doing this as my diploma thesis, it works for Windows Mobile phones/PDAs and is tested with Firefox and Thunderbird.

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-03 Thread Matej Kurpel
On 3. 2. 2011 9:21, Anders Rundgren wrote: Matej Kurpel wrote: On 2. 2. 2011 13:37, Gervase Markham wrote: On 01/02/11 18:08, Matej Kurpel wrote: @Q4: I am doing this as my diploma thesis, it works for Windows Mobile phones/PDAs and is tested with Firefox and Thunderbird. Certificate login wor

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-03 Thread Anders Rundgren
Matej Kurpel wrote: On 2. 2. 2011 13:37, Gervase Markham wrote: On 01/02/11 18:08, Matej Kurpel wrote: @Q4: I am doing this as my diploma thesis, it works for Windows Mobile phones/PDAs and is tested with Firefox and Thunderbird. Certificate login works fine in Firefox. Can you tell us a bit

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-02 Thread Robert Relyea
On 02/02/2011 04:48 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: > On 01/02/11 23:03, Robert Relyea wrote: >> 1) use request/not require certificate. If a certificate is supplied, >> that will show up in the initial handshake. The certificate will tell >> the server which account and you can bypass login altogether.

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-02 Thread Marsh Ray
On 02/02/2011 06:41 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 01/02/11 20:02, Marsh Ray wrote: Whether or not client certs count as a second factor is somewhat philosophical. In some sense, the private key stored in the browser functions as another "something you know" like a password. If the PC is pwned, t

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-02 Thread Matej Kurpel
On 2. 2. 2011 13:37, Gervase Markham wrote: On 01/02/11 18:08, Matej Kurpel wrote: @Q4: I am doing this as my diploma thesis, it works for Windows Mobile phones/PDAs and is tested with Firefox and Thunderbird. Certificate login works fine in Firefox. Can you tell us a bit more about this? How

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-02 Thread Eddy Nigg
On 02/02/2011 02:41 PM, From Gervase Markham: If your computer is pwned, you have lost. So I'm not worried about the disadvantages of client certs from that perspective. If your computer is taken over, neither username.password pairs will help you... I'm more worried about their possible us

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-02 Thread Bradley Baetz
On 02/02/11 23:48, Gervase Markham wrote: Sounds technically plausible - we can possibly require all the security groupt to use Firefox 4 - but seems like it would require some serious Apache mod_ssl hacking. Not necessarily - Bugzilla could, for those accounts, instead of generating the ses

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-02 Thread Gervase Markham
On 01/02/11 23:03, Robert Relyea wrote: 1) use request/not require certificate. If a certificate is supplied, that will show up in the initial handshake. The certificate will tell the server which account and you can bypass login altogether. If no certificate is supplied, you can bounce to user t

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-02 Thread Gervase Markham
On 01/02/11 20:02, Marsh Ray wrote: Whether or not client certs count as a second factor is somewhat philosophical. In some sense, the private key stored in the browser functions as another "something you know" like a password. If the PC is pwned, they can get the private key too. If your compu

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-02 Thread Gervase Markham
On 01/02/11 18:08, Matej Kurpel wrote: @Q4: I am doing this as my diploma thesis, it works for Windows Mobile phones/PDAs and is tested with Firefox and Thunderbird. Certificate login works fine in Firefox. Can you tell us a bit more about this? How does what you are doing compare to http://mo

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-02 Thread Anders Rundgren
aerow...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Marsh Ray wrote: On 02/01/2011 02:41 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote: What about the client cert in a smart card? That's old and standard and supported by Mozilla. I don't know what kind of prices you'd have to pay for small quantities tho

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-01 Thread aerowolf
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Marsh Ray wrote: On 02/01/2011 02:41 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote: What about the client cert in a smart card? That's old and standard and supported by Mozilla. I don't know what kind of prices you'd have to pay for small quantities though. $119 if you go with

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-01 Thread aerowolf
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Marsh Ray wrote: can meet the requirement of "implement it only for some accounts" (with the implicit requirement that it doesn't bother or affect people who are not using it). Can a client certificate solution be made to work? Those accounts would probably h

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-01 Thread Robert Relyea
On 02/01/2011 12:02 PM, Marsh Ray wrote: > On 02/01/2011 10:56 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: >> Dear crypto-hackers, >> >> Your thoughts on the following problem would be appreciated. >> >> Goal: fix bug 570252. Provide 2-factor authentication for some Bugzilla >> accounts. >> https://bugzilla.mozilla

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-01 Thread Marsh Ray
On 02/01/2011 02:41 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote: Gervase, The ability to use a chip as holder of credentials for on-line providers like Bugzilla is unlikely to happen in a major way until there is an open solution for getting keys down into the chip/container that is: 1. Usable by non-experts 2.

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-01 Thread Anders Rundgren
Gervase, The ability to use a chip as holder of credentials for on-line providers like Bugzilla is unlikely to happen in a major way until there is an open solution for getting keys down into the chip/container that is: 1. Usable by non-experts 2. Is secure in such a way that banks could use it

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-01 Thread Marsh Ray
On 02/01/2011 10:56 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: Dear crypto-hackers, Your thoughts on the following problem would be appreciated. Goal: fix bug 570252. Provide 2-factor authentication for some Bugzilla accounts. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570252 Sub-goal: do it in a way which

Re: Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-01 Thread Matej Kurpel
On 1. 2. 2011 17:56, Gervase Markham wrote: Dear crypto-hackers, Your thoughts on the following problem would be appreciated. Goal: fix bug 570252. Provide 2-factor authentication for some Bugzilla accounts. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570252 Sub-goal: do it in a way which d

Two-factor auth for Bugzilla

2011-02-01 Thread Gervase Markham
Dear crypto-hackers, Your thoughts on the following problem would be appreciated. Goal: fix bug 570252. Provide 2-factor authentication for some Bugzilla accounts. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570252 Sub-goal: do it in a way which doesn't involve purchasing or running proprie