What are people doing for authentication and IoT nodes? Do you create a separate account for each node, just share the password across every node and hope you don't have to change the password?
jjrh
I know there was some talk of people working on a spec for temp passwords or a token type thing (scan this qr code and we authenticate the session)
jjrh
wondering what solutions people are doing right now however.
MattJ
Passwords, here
MattJ
For personal stuff
MattJ
Commercial folk like to use open IBR :)
jjrh
open IBR?
MattJ
The devices register their own account on the server (with a static/random password or based on serial number or whatever)
jjrh
Trying to find it on google - is there another name for it?
MattJ
https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0077.html
jjrh
ahh I was looking for a non xmpp spec hah
MattJ
To be clear I don't recommend this solution, it's horrific