Ideal Authentication
Creativity is the art of compromise. One gifted artist may never receive recognition during his lifetime and die penniless (Vincent Van Gogh). Another one may mass-produce a painting a day to order and bask in his glory (Boris Kustodiev). Time was the final judge as to the talent and merit of these two artists and their works, but it happened only after they died. The procedure of authenticity verification is a kind of art, too. For a...
How to Make Authentication Simple and Secure
The Rothschild brothers, who grew rich making profits on the results of the Battle of Waterloo, used to say: “He who owns information owns the world”. The only thing to specify here is who the information belongs to: yourself or somebody else. All throughout its history, mankind has been involved in authentication technique development, from making call signals imitating birds’ sounds and manual ciphering to logging into a system via...