Thursday, April 10, 2003

Swivel Develops a New Wireless Authentication Technology

Swivel Technologies, a start-up based in London, introduced a new authentication system that uses a mobile phone or PDA to confirm user identity. The Swivel M2F server protocol software provides a two-factor authentication on both second and third generation mobile networks as well as on the latest Java based cell phones. Two-factor authentication involves the use of something you know and something you have in order to confirm that "you are who you say you are." Swivel uses a 4-digit PIN as the "something" the user knows and a cellular mobile phone with a randomly generated, 10-digit security string as the "something" the user has.
http://www.swiveltechnologies.com