Depends, some ask for the email used for the registration, the others ask for a username. Incase of the username, its a 2fa! Something you know ( username ) and something you have ( access to the registered email’s inbox )!
… Its still a shit security design. Better to have username, pass and a security key hehe
Hmh, I guess, though I feel this is a bit more complicated. What if you can look up the username in the registration mail sent to the inbox? Or it’s a site that uses email addresses as usernames? Is it knowing if said knowledge is inferrable from the thing you have?
I think you got it wrong what i meant (?)
Imagine i register on a website with my username ( DacoTaco ) and email ( [email protected] ). When i want to reset my password and click the “forgot password” link, it would ask my username, not my email address (something i know) and send me an email ( to [email protected] ) without reporting what email it sent it too. That way it could be considered a separate identity factor i think (access to the mailbox, something you have ).
Websites generally dont work this way, i know. But thats how id implement it :')
Thanks for clarifying. I was mostly trying to apply that scenario to a likely real world one, but there’s definitely cases in which it could be two factor.
Depends, some ask for the email used for the registration, the others ask for a username. Incase of the username, its a 2fa! Something you know ( username ) and something you have ( access to the registered email’s inbox )!
… Its still a shit security design. Better to have username, pass and a security key hehe
Hmh, I guess, though I feel this is a bit more complicated. What if you can look up the username in the registration mail sent to the inbox? Or it’s a site that uses email addresses as usernames? Is it knowing if said knowledge is inferrable from the thing you have?
I think you got it wrong what i meant (?)
Imagine i register on a website with my username ( DacoTaco ) and email ( [email protected] ). When i want to reset my password and click the “forgot password” link, it would ask my username, not my email address (something i know) and send me an email ( to [email protected] ) without reporting what email it sent it too. That way it could be considered a separate identity factor i think (access to the mailbox, something you have ).
Websites generally dont work this way, i know. But thats how id implement it :')
Thanks for clarifying. I was mostly trying to apply that scenario to a likely real world one, but there’s definitely cases in which it could be two factor.