Opportunity
Improving access controls is one of the largest opportunities to improve security and UX of self-owned digital accounts.
I’ve shared thoughts on the forum and started open info (OI) that focus on interacting with apps.
Does v1 and v2 make it easier for developers to create UX that allows users to manage Safe access controls for signing in to apps?
Safe access controls for apps
Benefits
- Managing sign-in access controls with Safe has the potential to improve UX and security
- Sign-in is secured by the Safe account
- Sign-in is fast and easy with access controls provided to easily accessible externally owned accounts (EOAs) on web browsers, mobile, etc.
- Accounts with access to apps (Sign-in, reading, writing, etc) can be existing Safe approval accounts (Aka signers) of the given Safe or other accounts defined
Example
I provide access control from my Safe account that is associated to my Fileverse (Writing, publishing, and data storage) app
- I allow my MetaMask web browser account to sign-in to Fileverse and write files to Fileverse on behalf of the Safe account.
- My 3 of 5 approvers from my Safe account approves these ongoing access controls.
- I make sure the less secure MetaMask account has no transfer of ownership access with the Fileverse app.
- Ownership access control remains fully controlled by the 3 of 5 Safe account.