Hammer pointed to a conflict between the web and enterprise cultures, citing the IETF as a community that is “all about enterprise use cases”, that is “not capable of simple.” What is now offered is a blueprint for an authorization protocol, he says, and “that is the enterprise way”, providing a “whole new frontier to sell consulting services and integration solutions.” In July 2012, Eran Hammer resigned his role of lead author for the OAuth 2.0 project, withdrew from the IETF working group, and removed his name from the specification. ![]() OAuth provides client applications a 'secure delegated access' to server resources on behalf of a resource owner. ![]() The problem is, the OAuth 2.0 protocol is complex, not just technically, but has political controversy of its own.Īuth is an open standard for authorization. (example: password plus sending a message to your phone number) Google claims this new way makes things more secure, and allows 2-steps login. Is Google forcing others to adopt the Google Way? In short, Google wants others to use their security API to login to gmail. In summary, if your application currently uses plain passwords to authenticate to Google, we strongly encourage you to minimize user disruption by switching to OAuth 2.0. … We've already implemented developer tools including Google Sign-In and support for OAuth 2.0 in Google APIs and IMAP, SMTP and XMPP, and we're always looking to raise the bar. ![]() Google announced the move to “force” others to use a new security feature, via their official Some Desktop mail clients like Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird The Mail app on your Windows phone preceding the 8.1 release The Mail app on your iPhone or iPad with iOS 6 or below Some examples of apps that do not support the latest security standards include: Since these apps and devices are easier to break into, blocking them helps keep your account safer. Google may block sign in attempts from some apps or devices that do not use modern security standards. To solve it, you have to turn off a new google security feature.Īllowing less secure apps to access your account Today, i did, and got the error message. But i haven't launched it for several months. I use Thunderbird to download my emails to my computer. ![]() Google Mail is blocking Mozilla Thunderbird to access gmail.
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