Blizzard Authenticator
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The blizzard authentication is really cool, just as well as all other RSA tokens. I understand that synchronization plays an important role in this matter, but when using RSA or authenticated encryption, isn't its main goal based on time of the day that this information is generated? If so, if the server goes down, doesn't that mess up the synchronization with all other devices?
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The blizzard authentication is really cool, just as well as all other RSA tokens. I understand that synchronization plays an important role in this matter, but when using RSA or authenticated encryption, isn't its main goal based on time of the day that this information is generated? If so, if the server goes down, doesn't that mess up the synchronization with all other devices?
My understanding is that the Blizzard authenticator is purely a number generating machine. It does not depend on the time - if you ever use an RSA token you will find that each time a new number shows a bar also decreases in size. With an RSA token you need to enter the number generally while there are still two bars left due to this synchronization issue. The Blizzard authenticator has no such countdown bar. I think this question may also need to go to the lounge as it is not really a C# question ;)
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modified on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 3:03 AM