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Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive."

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Re: Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive."

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They also restrict it to EDIT: That doesn't even make sense, unless they're storing plain-text passwords.

If you're at the point of needing a 50 character passcode for your blizzard game maybe you should just download the free authenticator .

Two-factor authentication shouldn't be a replacement for a good password scheme, it should supplement it. Otherwise it's one-and-a-half factor. :)

Re: Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive."

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OK, where can I download that free authenticator for my Nokia S60?

Run java? http://arenabooster.marisil.org/bma.htm

Nope:

    The Java-based (J2ME) versions of the Battle.net Mobile Authenticator previously
    available through this website have been discontinued.
http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/mobile/

Re: Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive."

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Well, in the same forum there's also this: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149150816 I don't understand why there is a 16 character limit on user passwords.

It's not technically a limit, as much as a truncation. I still would be happy if they lengthened that.

I'd say it's a limit caused by truncation, but this is rather irrelevant.

Re: Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive."

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OK, where can I download that free authenticator for my Nokia S60?

Well, they do offer http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/battlenet-sms-protec... which provides an extra (but different) layer of security.

Assuming you're from one of the "supported countries", though, which aren't listed.

Re: Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive."

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If you're at the point of needing a 50 character passcode for your blizzard game maybe you should just download the free authenticator .

OK, where can I download that free authenticator for my Nokia S60?

Find an apk and toss it on an Android emulator?

Re: Diablo 3 bug report: "Passwords not case-sensitive."

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Hi, interested in the above comment. Can you explain how a timing attack would work here?

An interesting demo: [1] By not doing all 3 hashes, an attacker might realise that the password they sent passed, say, 2 checks, but not the third. This discloses information about the relationship between the password the attacker just tried and the correct password. [1] http://carlos.bueno.org/2011/10/timing.html

I see the problem in theory, but in reality, the time of a couple of hash functions compared to network latency and application server routing would be quite small. Can timing attacks actually work in such situations?
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