Digipass
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VASCO Data Security International
VASCO Data Security International, Inc., is a US based company. The company's operational headquarters are located in Zurich , Switzerland....
, providing strong user authentication
Strong authentication
Strong authentication is a notion with several unofficial definitions; is not standardized in the security literature.Often, strong authentication is associated with two-factor authentication or more generally multi-factor authentication...
and digital signature
Digital signature
A digital signature or digital signature scheme is a mathematical scheme for demonstrating the authenticity of a digital message or document. A valid digital signature gives a recipient reason to believe that the message was created by a known sender, and that it was not altered in transit...
s via small security token
Security token
A security token may be a physical device that an authorized user of computer services is given to ease authentication...
s carried by users, or in software on mobile telephones, portable devices or PCs. It is compatible with more than 50 international vendors for a variety of e-commerce, e-banking, e-networking and e-government applications.
It uses time and/or challenge based two-factor authentication
Two-factor authentication
Two-factor authentication is an approach to authentication which requires the presentation of two different kinds of evidence that someone is who they say they are. It is a part of the broader family of multi-factor authentication, which is a defense in depth approach to security...
and can be used to sign electronic transactions. It was invented in 1989 by Dominique COLARD from Belgium.
The Digipass series comes with:
- a single button, or
- multiple buttons for PIN entry and data input (e.g. challenge or transaction information)
The Digipass Go 6 device can be used to provide secure login authentication by players of MMORPG
MMORPG
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....
s like Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XI
, also known as Final Fantasy XI Online, is a MMORPG developed and published by Square as part of the Final Fantasy series. It was released in Japan on Sony's PlayStation 2 on May 16, 2002, and was released for Microsoft's Windows-based personal computers in November 2002...
, Final Fantasy XIV
Final Fantasy XIV
, also known as Final Fantasy XIV Online, is the fourteenth installment in the Final Fantasy series. It was released in September 2010 for Microsoft Windows, with a PlayStation 3 port in development. The game is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and is developed and published by...
, and World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994...
.. HSBC (in the UK, Hong Kong and Armenia at least) use Digipass devices to allow access to customers' online banking accounts.