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All,

I'm developing a small, non-commercial web app. I'm trying to decide how to help a user who might have lost their password. I need a mechanism that is, in order of priority:

  1. User friendly;
  2. Secure;
  3. Easily scalable across multiple geographies (i.e., location agnostic - so no SMS for example).

Please give 1 approach per answer and let's let the votes bring the best ones to the top.

Thanks,

JDelage

All,

I'm developing a small, non-commercial web app. I'm trying to decide how to help a user who might have lost their password. I need a mechanism that is, in order of priority:

  1. User friendly;
  2. Secure;
  3. Easily scalable across multiple geographies (i.e., location agnostic - so no SMS for example).

Please give 1 approach per answer and let's let the votes bring the best ones to the top.

Thanks,

JDelage

All,

I'm developing a small, non-commercial web app. I'm trying to decide how to help a user who might have lost their password. I need a mechanism that is, in order of priority:

  1. User friendly;
  2. Secure;
  3. Easily scalable across multiple geographies (i.e., location agnostic - so no SMS for example).
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All,

I'm developing a small, non-commercial web app. I'm trying to decide how to help a user who might have lost their password. I need a mechanism that is, in order of priority:

  1. User friendly;
  2. Secure;
  3. Easily scalable across multiple geographies (i.e., location agnostic - so no SMS for example).

Please give 1 approach per answer and let's let the votes bring the best ones to the top.

Thanks,

JDelage

All,

I'm developing a small, non-commercial web app. I'm trying to decide how to help a user who might have lost their password. I need a mechanism that is, in order of priority:

  1. User friendly;
  2. Secure;
  3. Easily scalable across multiple geographies.

Please give 1 approach per answer and let's let the votes bring the best ones to the top.

Thanks,

JDelage

All,

I'm developing a small, non-commercial web app. I'm trying to decide how to help a user who might have lost their password. I need a mechanism that is, in order of priority:

  1. User friendly;
  2. Secure;
  3. Easily scalable across multiple geographies (i.e., location agnostic - so no SMS for example).

Please give 1 approach per answer and let's let the votes bring the best ones to the top.

Thanks,

JDelage

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All,

I'm developing a small, non-commercial web app. I'm trying to decide how to help a user who might have lost their password. I need a mechanism that is, in order of priority:

  1. User friendly;
  2. Secure;
  3. Easily scalable across multiple geographies.

Please give 1 approach per answer and let's let the votes bring the best ones to the top.

Thanks,

JDelage