TRANSPARENT SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS DEVICE FACTOR IN A MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM

An authentication system supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) when authenticating the identity of a user. A challenge-response portion of the authentication process is delegated to an MFA device-a secondary device within control of the user, but separate from the primary login device that the...

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Hauptverfasser: Sinha, Bidan, Chandramohan, Kavitha, Keerthy, Naveen Kumar, Lind, Stephen Woodward, Bhat, Karthik, He, Jintai
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:An authentication system supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) when authenticating the identity of a user. A challenge-response portion of the authentication process is delegated to an MFA device-a secondary device within control of the user, but separate from the primary login device that the user is using when initiating the authentication. Communications between the MFA device and the login device are conducted using a short-range wireless communication protocol (e.g., Bluetooth™ or NFC), so that the two devices must be in close physical proximity to each other.