Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Two factor authentication goes mobile on phones, PDAs, laptops, and more

Monday, May 8, 2006


by Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications

At least this year, many U.S. consumers aren’t ready for one-time-password (OTP) generators or smart cards. So like the medicine maker that tricks kids into getting better by concocting fruit-flavored, cartoon character remedies, a number of digital security vendors are tucking authentication into the devices Americans know and love – Blackberries and mobile phones.

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