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RE: QuizID?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trei, Peter)
Thu Oct 17 14:36:37 2002
From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com,
"Branchaud, Marc" <marcnarc@rsasecurity.com>
Cc: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@lne.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:11:36 -0400
> Branchaud, Marc writes:
>
> Any thoughts on this device? At first glance, it doesn't seem
> particularly impressive...
>
> http://www.quizid.com/
>
> Lovely idea of two-factor authentication:
>
> The user then enters their user name (something they know) and the
> 8-digit Quizid passcode (something they have) into the login screen
> of their application.
>
> BBC NEWS | Technology | Handy future for online security
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2334491.stm
>
> Excerpt from the BBC article:
>
> Users are issued with a card and a personal code, based on a set of
> colour keys on the card. Each time they wish to conduct a secure
> transaction, they punch in the colour code and a random number is
> generated.
>
> M.
>
[Note of vested interests: I work on RSA SecurID, which is a
competing product.]
Based on the information at the site, and Quizid's statement
that their hardware is manufactured by ActivCard, I have to
say that this looks an *awful lot* like the ActivCard Keychain
Token, repackaged into a bigger form factor.
Peter Trei
Disclaimer: The above represents only my personal opinion.
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