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smsm42last Wednesday at 11:08 PM1 replyview on HN

Unfortunately, this does not work. I see no end of banks, financial institutions, let alone random companies, who keep their authentication, for some reason, on different domain than main company, and sometimes they would have initial registration (which gets recorded in password manager) on one domain, and consequent logins on another, and sometimes it depends on how you arrived at the site, or which integration are you planning to use, etc. I wish there were a rule "one company - one auth domain" but it's just not true.

Example: Citi bank has citibankonline.com, citi.com, citidirect.com, citientertainment.com, etc. Would you be suspicious of a link to citibankdirect.com? Would you check the certificate for each link going there, and trace it down, or just assume Citi is up to their shenanigans again and paste the password manually? It's jungle out there.


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toast0yesterday at 3:51 AM

> Would you check the certificate for each link going there, and trace it down, or just assume Citi is up to their shenanigans again and paste the password manually?

What do you get from checking a certificate? Oh yeah, must really be citibank because they have a shitton of SANs? I'd guess most banks do have a cert with an organization name, but organization names can be misleading, and some banks might use LetsEncrypt?

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