D Github contributors - enable 2 factor authentification

Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 11 17:48:01 PDT 2016


On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 18:44:11 UTC, ketmar wrote:

> i'm not using smartphones at all, so no "apps". besides, 
> without sending auth request by some other channel than 
> internet i can't see any value in 2fa at all: how is that 
> different from simply using my ssh key and encrypted internet 
> channel?

Simple your github account manages the SSH keys used to 
contribute code, it also is what creates pull requests for the 
contributions to other repos.

GitHub and some others support Fido U2F and that doesn't use an 
internet channel for auth. Check out Yubico's Yubikey for some 
good hardware.


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