SSH with Facebook Auth(scaleft.com) |
SSH with Facebook Auth(scaleft.com) |
In "real life" you can setup SSH to fall back to other methods. See the howtos for setting up 2-Factor Auth[1] for example.
[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
> an experiment where you can share your servers with your friends by using Facebook as the authentication mechanism. It’s a quick way to show how versatile the ScaleFT authentication platform can be: Give us a reliable authentication mechanism, and we can log you into a server with it.
[1] https://coreos.com/blog/international-friendship-day.html
You're absolutely right that when you're using ScaleFT you're trusting both us (as operators of the CA) and your identity provider (in this case Facebook, but we have a bunch of other options more suitable for most businesses).
Handing over control isn't necessarily a bad thing. For example, I trust Google to operate a secure and reliable email service much more than I trust myself, leaving me to focus on my area of expertise. But trust is a complex thing and there are certainly situations where handing control to any third party is unacceptable.
For organizations that require complete control we can integrate with any SAML or OpenID Connect identity system, and we offer an on-premise version of ScaleFT.
Hopefully, Google would soon integrate features that let it auto-reply to your incoming messages. It can be trusted more, after all.
This sentence has got nothing to do with trust. You believe (maybe rightly so) that Gmail is more secure and reliable than any solution that can be cobbled-up individually.
Simply replacing "believe" with "trust" doesn't really mean the same though. English is a funny language. But then again that's what you probably meant when you said "Trust is a complex thing". Hmmmm... :)