Re: Someone's knocking on my door
- From: Hans Georg Schaathun <georg@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 10 Apr 2006 21:12:37 GMT
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:36:17 GMT, alexd
<look@xxxxxx> wrote:
: Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
:
: > [*] For an annual fee, you can have an electronic pseudo-random
: > generator instead of this card. I am not quite sure how that works;
: > if it provides any (real) additional security.
:
: Theoretically, yes it does. If you've got two 'factors', ie something you
: have and something you know, then you can only lose one at a time.
Yes, but that's already the case with the standard, plastic cards.
You have the one-time code on the card, you know your secret, long-term
password.
I am not sure if an additional secret code is needed to use the
electronic one-time code generator or not; that might be the case.
--
:-- Hans Georg http://www.ii.uib.no/~georg/
`This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built
on government contract.' (Heinlein)
.
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