Guild Wars 2

This is a good concept, but a couple of things :

• Please provide a ‘keyRing’ authenticator like WoW and SWTOR use. Not everyone has a ‘mobile device’ capable of doing this task.

• Note that even with this system, the concept of “..this ensures that without your mobile device, an attacker would not be able to compromise your Guild Wars 2 account…” is not valid. A ‘Man-In-The-Middle’ attack can compromise an account even with this sort of authentication.

Still, I have the ‘KeyRing’ style authenticator for both my WoW and SWTOR accounts and do feel very secure with them.

Please do provide this option. I think I paid around $6 for the ones I have.

Thank You

The login does negotiate a TLS session, so a MITM attack shouldn’t be a problem (assuming the certificate infrastructure used is good.)

The authentication is an open standard, you can run the program on a spare computer, in a VM, or if needed in your main comp.

If you are good at math you can actually generate the authentication code by hand, though doing it in 30 seconds is impossible.

I’d be happy to pay for a keyring type authenticator if it was an option. Not everyone has or wants a smart phone.

The standard price for the key fob tokens is about $25 each from RSA (minimum order 10), dropping as order size increases. That’s ignoring the licensing costs for the server side software, which are considerable.