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Find a better solution to data server security than token-auth

Open fhats opened this issue 12 years ago • 1 comments

The whole token-auth system is not a great means of cryptographic security between the UI server and the data server. It would be better to implement some kind of one time pad-like system where single use tokens are generated at random and then consumed by the UI or data server.

fhats avatar Aug 17 '12 19:08 fhats

I feel that I should explain as the guy who designed this feature; it's only for doing authentication and assumes underlying encryption. It would be unwise to run firefly with sensitive data without https to both ui and data servers.

Roguelazer avatar Aug 17 '12 20:08 Roguelazer