[OpenID] Password age and password reset

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Wed May 13 02:03:09 UTC 2009


>Perhaps the best solution would be for the RP to just inform the 
>user of suspicious activity, and to recommend that the user change 
>their PW.

Inform the user how? If the RP is detecting a recently changed 
password, they can't detect suspicious activity until after the 
password has changed - and then, it probably IS the attacker (not the 
user) who is connecting to the RP.

Do they use the OP-submitted E-mail address, probably also changed by 
the attacker, to notify the user? Or put something in the page? 
Either way, the attacker has now been alerted to the RP's suspicion; 
can the attacker disarm these notifications?

-Shade



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