![]() The same app-specific password can be used for multiple apps (Bus圜al. That's how I read it, but then again I've been begging for this and have submitted the request to Apple while using Gmail as an example of doing it right so I may be seeing this article through rose coloured glasses. for your iCloud account, you have to generate an app-specific password. Two-factor authentication requires at least one iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 9 or later, or a Mac running OS X El Capitan or later. With the representational password they can't access anything because it's tied to that app and/or device. In order to create an app-specific password for Bus圜al and Bus圜ontacts, you must first enable two-factor authentication for your iCloud account. Scenario 1 - Part 2: Now I know SuperDuperMailbox is on the up-and-up - well, they are nice guys - but their servers get hacked and they foolishly stored your password and username which the hacker was able to find the encryption key for. Sure, still a security risk, but they won't be able to use that representational password to log into to grab your contacts, calendar, backups, wipe your phone, whatever. This gets associated with the 3rd-party app and/or device so they can only access your iCloud mail for you. This is where the representational password comes into play. You use iCloud for email but you don't really want to give them access to your iCloud username and password, but you have to if you want to set up mail through their app. If you use iCloud with any third party apps, such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Bus圜al, you can generate app-specific passwords that allow you to sign in securely, even if the app. You hear it's good but you don't know anything about the company. Scenario 1 - Part 1: You install SuperDuperMailbox, a 3rd-party app. ![]() ![]() This is generated by Apple's iCloud servers and is typically gets used with your actual username/email and the generated password it creates per app and/or per device. Google already does this for Gmail.Įssentially it works like ?Pay insofar as you don't use your actual password when you let these 3rd-party companies gain access to your iCloud account, but rather use a representational password. What this sounds like is exactly what I've wanting Apple to do with iCloud for awhile now. It's not very clear from reading the article. I'm a little unclear on what this implies. ![]()
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