Battle.net Accounts and you: How I merged 7 wow accounts to 1 login.

[hendrata]

The problem is that actual programs can be reverse engineered to figure out the algorithm of the phone-authenticator. Let's hope they use a seperate algorithm for the physical authenticator and the phone version.

Granted, given enough data anything can be reverse engineered. I just don't like making it easier to do.

I don't know exactly how the Blizzard authenticator works, but from my limited Cryptographic understanding:
1. Yes given enough data anything can be reverse engineered, but we're talking about exponential growth here. They must have designed the program to not be able to be reverse engineered faster than a couple of years with a supercomputer etc. This is just what they use in online banking.
2. The algorithm of the phone-authenticator can be viewable by public and yet the authenticator can still be secure. This is a principle of "no security through obscurity." What they have and everyone else doesn't is a "secret key", but what's in the phone-authenticator is a public key. They use the secret key to verify whether this number is accurate or not, but the public key can be announced and it still won't break the security.

[ilililil]

Everytime I try to download the iPhone authenticator it says my phone isnt compatible. My phone is brand new. anyone else experience this or heard about any workaround? my keychain constantly falls off and separates from my main keychain.

[caldvn]

Everytime I try to download the iPhone authenticator it says my phone isnt compatible. My phone is brand new. anyone else experience this or heard about any workaround? my keychain constantly falls off and separates from my main keychain.

Download itunes, plug your phone in, and check for new iphone update. You need firmware 2.2.1 or higher.

[Otlecs]

Shamless bump for awareness since this is now apparently available in Europe.

[Enndo]

But wouldn't this make it easier for hackers to get your toons since all they need to find is your email than crack away at passwords? Instead of making them guess at your username?

[Svpernova09]

But wouldn't this make it easier for hackers to get your toons since all they need to find is your email than crack away at passwords? Instead of making them guess at your username?

This is why I have an authenticator :_)

[Tonuss]

If you want to transfer a character between accounts that are merged, how is it done now?

Same with a non merged account, going to the merged account?

Considering if you have more than one merged account, obviously

Your individual accounts still exist and are identified by the names you used when you created them. They're just under an umbrella account now. So when you want to move a character from one account to another, the account interface for doing so is the same one as before and works the same way. You select the appropriate account names and initiate the transfer.

[Prepared]

I just hit the WoW limit on this. You can only have a max of 8 world of warcraft accounts. it sucks.

Thanks for letting me know about this. I was considering doing this, but I won't now as I've got way over 8 accounts.

Given that associating WoW accounts to a battle.net account makes an extra selection in the login process, it would have been a pain for me to log in all of my accounts anyway. The way it is before associating a battle.net account is easy to log in all accounts as long as the password is the same. Using the blizzard authenticator to login with Octopus is great the way it is before the battle.net account because Octopus populates the logins within all windows started. Entering the same password then the authenticator code allows any number of accounts to login at the same time easily without making any selections. The introduction of the battle.net login once doesn't save anything, but adds a selection of the account which is a royal pain using the mouse for each account. On top of that, only 8 WoW accounts can be associated with a battle.net account and this method is no good for me.

[Moorea]

you don't need to select more than once; as long as you have "remember login" checked, it will stay selected for next time
(ie no extra steps after the first time)

[Svpernova09]

Bumping this to the front page since this will now be necessary for all wow accounts as of November 11th/12th.