Bitspark and Clef Team Up for "Passwordless" Logins
Bitspark becomes the latest Bitcoin company to integrate Clef's two-factor authentication to provide secure, "passwordless" logins for their users. Why Is This Important? Earlier this year, the Canadian Bitcoin exchange, Cavitrex, shut down temporarily due to security concerns. The exchange was hacked just weeks prior to the announcement, which caused....
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Clef, the passwordless authentication system "inspired by Bitcoin," just announced its partnership with AlphaPoint and their Bitcoin exchange platform. It comes in the wake of previous partnership announcements such as as Koinify and Bitspark. Clef can authenticate a user without a password using two-factor authentication. Instead of asking the user to recall a string of information, the login screen generates an animation called the Clef Wave, which the user scans with a mobile device. The user then enters a thumbprint or PIN number into the Clef app, proving he or she has both his or her....
Clef, a two-factor authentication platform, has recently gained traction in the Bitcoin space with companies like Koinify integrating it to secure their platform. Today, Clef announced True Logins, a new anti-phishing mechanism. Phishing is when an attacker disguises themselves and pretend to be another website. For example, an attacker might use faceboook.com, with three “o’s” so a user thinks they are on a normal, secure website. Then, if the user types in their password for the real site, the attacker can steal the user’s account. In fact, phishing attacks have been used to steal....
AlphaPoint has just announced that it is integrating two-factor authentication service Clef into its platform, making it convenient to login securely to more than 20 exchanges that depend on its digital currency exchange technology. According to the company, AlphaPoint "offers a white label solution that allows clients to launch their own digital currency exchange in under 20 days." AlphaPoint has also recently partnered with IdentityMind to solve know-your-customer and anti-money laundering compliance issues. No more passwords, no more tokens. Security has always been an important focus....
The developers of the altcoin EmerCoin (EMC) recently released the details of a new block chain technology, EMCSSL. The system provides passwordless logins and identity management via its block chain. The technology has been designed to solve many of the login and authentication issues that plague the Internet. EMCSSL provides a scalable infrastructure for passwordless authorization suitable for an unlimited number of web services. The infrastructure sits on the EMC cryptocurrency block chain, using the block chain as a decentralized store of hash sums for client Secure Socket Layer (SSL)....
Clef, the two-factor authentication service from the future, has partnered with crypto crowdfunding platform, Koinify, as it expands its security offering into the Bitcoin world. When deciding to go with a two-factor authentication service, Koinify chose Clef because “its a fresh new solution to the 2FA problem,” stated Tom Kysar, Community Lead at Koinify. Providing users with a stronger peace of mind regarding the security of their tokens and account is a top priority for the app funding platform. Although Clef’s integration has only been active for a short time, the team at Koinify....