We had launched a survey about the satisfaction and experience with privacyIDEA. 95% of the respondents said they had gerneral experience with two-factor authentication. Most of them found privacyIDEA via Google, a quarter via recommendations from friends and acquaintances. In most cases, privacyIDEA is used for VPN and web applications. […]
biometrics
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In the past we had a somehow reluctant attitude to biometric authentication. Fingerprints and iris scan could only replace the username, not the password. But after several month of research stackoverflow came up with a what we think easy to use and reliable biometric authentication mechanism. This is why in version 3 […]
I published a short article about the history of strong authentication during the last 33 years – starting with Admiral James T. Kirk accessing the Genesis project data with a retina scan. Well, personally I am really not convince to use biometrics for authentication. Have you ever tried to revoke […]
Scientist from Pune in India have an interesting idea to use one time passwords to withdraw money from the ATM machine. Bad enough, the one time password is to be sent via SMS. I understand it. Banks are great in saving money. A bank does not want to give ATM […]