The end of password pain: building frictionless authentication at the Guardian

(theguardian.engineering)

9 points | by Tomte 13 hours ago ago

3 comments

  • bob1029 13 hours ago ago

    I've been enjoying modern machine-to-machine flows. Trading trusted URLs for client ids is a really secure model. Especially if you go the extra mile with role based machine auth to cloud key stores. You can do the entire thing without a single secret string. I'd much rather prove I can control a URL than ensure a piece of information never leaks out.

    • mooreds 9 hours ago ago

      Are you talking about CIMD?

      • bob1029 7 hours ago ago

        Not specifically but it's the same idea. CIMD is perhaps one step too far for the cases I've worked with. We seem to prefer an out-of-band process for establishing trust. Two CTOs exchanging FQDNs at lunch is a fairly robust model.