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Implementing a one-time password system on the web

DOUBLE PROTECTION

Author(s): JAMES A. BARKLEY

Add security to your website with a one-time password system.

Two-factor authentication is a system in which two different factors are used in combination to authenticate a user. Two factors, as opposed to one factor, will deliver a higher level of authentication assurance. The combined factors could consist of:
• Something the user knows (password or pin)
• Something the user possesses (smartcard, PKI certificates, RSA SecurID)
• Something the user is or does (fingerprint, DNA sequence)


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