Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Multiple computer communication using cryptography – Protection at a particular protocol layer
Patent
1997-04-02
2000-03-07
Beausoliel, Jr., Robert W.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Multiple computer communication using cryptography
Protection at a particular protocol layer
713201, 380 4, 380 23, 380 25, 380 30, 382115, 382116, G06F 1100
Patent
active
060354062
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a method and system for simultaneously authenticating a user using two or more factors, such as both a password and a physical token or both a password and biometric information. The user presents a physical token including a storage device to a processor and attempts to log in using a first password; the processor includes a login service which receives the first password, accesses the storage device to transform the first password into a second password, and authenticates the second password using an operating system for the processor. The storage device includes encrypted information regarding the second password which can be relatively easily determined in response to the first password, but which cannot be relatively easily determined without the first password. The system or the storage device may also store information for biometric authentication of the user.
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Chan Chih S.
Moussa Mohamed A.
Beausoliel, Jr. Robert W.
Hamdan Wasseem H.
Quintet, Inc.
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