Authentication

[christopherjbaker]

There was a recent conversation between Simon Bauman and I on Facebook regarding Authentication. It occurred to me that this might be a good idea for a talk, which I would be willing to do.

But I need to know a) would you be interested in hearing a talk on this, and b) authentication is huge, what would you want to hear about?

Possible ideas:

• Authentication vs Authorization vs Encription
• Factors of Authentication. What does 2-factor authentication mean, why is it better, how can I do it myself? This naturally leads into time based security tokens.
• How secure is secure, how secure is "good enough", and where will it probably break down?

[jimbrowne]

For the user perspective, might want to cite http://twofactorauth.org/ as a great resource.

[scaryuncledevin]

I would be interested in hearing a talk on this.

[elskwid]

@HMUDesign - would you like to do this for the July meeting? (I'm not going to ask for the meeting tonight - as much as I might want to ... ha!)

[christopherjbaker]

I won't be there tonight, so I couldn't anyway. sorry. I can do this for July, unless you decide you want me to do the other one I'm going to post about in a minute =P

[elskwid]

@HMUDesign - how about we put this on the schedule for August? That would be 2014-08-26.

[christopherjbaker]

Works for me.

[cjavdev]

@HMUDesign did this talk go down?

[cjavdev]

This is good stuff to talk about even if it did happen in 2014, lets revisit in July.

[cjavdev]

Any volunteers up for talking about Authentication?