The main problem with multi-factor authentication is that it’s easy to bypass once the authentication data is obtained — perhaps through social engineering to discover the answers to security questions, or stealing a phone and using someone’s authenticator app. Created by a team of researchers in the Netherlands, the new type of verification — dubbed Quantum-Secure Authentication — uses the quantum attributes of light to identify a pattern through an exchange of data that cannot be faked.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 03:02:13 +0000
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