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Re: using SMS challenge/response to secure web sites

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Fri Oct 3 13:57:44 2003

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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 13:45:53 -0400
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
To: iang@systemics.com
Cc: crypto <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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> Now a company called NetPay.TV - I have no idea about
> them, really - have started a service that sends out
> a 6 digit pin over the SMS messaging features of the
> GSM network for the user to type in to the website [4].

Authentify (http://www.authentify.com), does the same kind of thing. 
They put a number on a web page, and then they call you and you key in 
the number.  They were founded in 1999; not sure if they're still active.
	/r$
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