Authernative Granted Patent in Australia for User Authentication Method
wtorek, styczeń 6th, 2009REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 6 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Authernative, Inc., the developer of innovative user authentication and identity management technologies, announced today that the Australian Patent Office has granted the company a patent for a user authentication method. The newly issued patent number 2004323374 entitled, “Authentication System and Method Based Upon Random Partial Digitized Path Recognition” describes a “what user knows”-based authentication method which overcomes two major deficiencies of passwords: memorization difficulties and low security.
To reduce memorization pressure and significantly improve ease of use, the patented technology utilizes a graphical secret pattern on a virtual reference grid, providing an easy way to choose, remember, and enter the user’s credentials.
To enhance security, the authentication server never challenges the user to provide the full secret pattern, but instead requests a session-specific random subset of the secret pattern (”One Time Pattern”(TM) (OTP)). This significantly reduces the credential’s entropy leakage and renders [...]
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