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What is the Identity of a Website?

Tags : Internet Banking, DH, SPEKE, Phishing, 2 Factor Authentication, Two factor Authentication
Industry : Technology Consulting, Management & Strategy Consulting, IT Products, Telecom/ISP, Internet
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Does a SSL certificate, showing the padlock icon, represent the true identity of a website?

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Shaillender Mittal  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  3 years ago
Ramdas, the fact that Identity is transmitted on an unauthenticated channel, even in current 2 factor solutions, is the root cause of teh problem of theft. The USB tokens etc, issued by companies to financial institutions only add another...
Ramdas Pawar  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  3 years ago
Thanks for your comment Mr. shailender....even i agree that both biometrics and password can be combined for better authentication process....
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Basics of Identity and Authentication  - In order to be able to identify / authenticate any entity (be it man or machine), the entity must be characterized by a unique set of symbols, as per the adopted representation scheme. During the process of actually identifying / authenticating the entity, these characteristics are observed and matched against those that were captured earlier and associated with the entity. The act of  establishing identity  is  identification . An Identity System must be able to represent, provide, maintain and establish identity. The identity representation framework must ensure that it is extremely difficult to compromise the individual identities it deals with. I...
 
 
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It is absolutely safe if the Banks have implemented 2-FA 
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Chintan Vyas  |  Argues in support of  "It is absolutely safe if the Banks have implemented 2-FA"  |  1 year ago
Today, single factor authentication, e.g. passwords, is no longer considered secure in the internet and banking world. Easy-to-guess passwords, such as names and age, are easily discovered by automated password-collecting programs. Two factor...
Shaillender Mittal  |  Argues in support of  "It is highly unsafe"  |  1 year ago
We all have heard about phished SSLs - these are secured connections, not with the banks, but with the hackers... How easy it is to get a SSL today! A hacker establishes a secure connection with you, and then with the bank, all the time making...
Sanjay Arora  |  Argues in support of  "It is absolutely safe if the Banks have implemented 2-FA"  |  1 year ago
Point is IF Banks have implemented Two Factor Authentication. I know only of HSBC in India providing a device for the second factor. I support  Mr. Srinivas's suggestion of opting for Mobile SMS based authentication, but again I personally dont...
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