Authentication Factor - Revision history

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‎Something you Have

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‎Something you Are

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‎Something you Know

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‎Authentication Factors

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 # Authenticating yourself to a device in hand
 # Authenticating yourself to a web site over the internet
-# Authentication yourself to a physical access device
+# Authentication yourself to a device that can be used to determine your [[Physical Location]]
 There are attempts continually being proposed that will prevent [[Authentication Factor]]s from become a loss of [[Privacy]]. This is never completely achieved, but the efforts can mitigate the loss.

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 ==Something you Have==
 This section addresses one [[Authentication Factor]]
-Note that this case includes something called cross-device authentication which is logically indistinguishable from this case.
+ Note that this case includes something called cross-device authentication which is logically indistinguishable from this case.
 * Usually a digital artifact that is able to create a one-time access code (aka a one-tine password)
 ===Attacks===

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 ==Something you Know==
 * This is the oldest factor for creating a digital Identity. There are two primary sources of things that you know.
 # Some attribute that only you would know, like a mother's maiden name or your first pet.
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 ==Something you Have==
 Note that this case includes something called cross-device authentication which is logically indistinguishable from this case.
 * Usually a digital artifact that is able to create a one-time access code (aka a one-tine password)

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	==Something you Are==		==Something you Are==
		+	This section addresses one [[Authentication Factor]]
	* aka Biometrics, see the wiki pages on [[Biometric Attribute]] and [[Biometric Identifier]]		* aka Biometrics, see the wiki pages on [[Biometric Attribute]] and [[Biometric Identifier]]

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 * Usually a digital artifact that is able to create a one-time access code (aka a one-tine password)
 ===Attacks===
-* Attacker takes the device away from you
+*  [[Attacker]] takes the device away from you
-* Attacker has a device that can spoof a [[Relying Party]] into thinking it is working on your behalf.
+*  [[Attacker]] has a device that can spoof a [[Relying Party]] into thinking it is working on your behalf.
 ==Something you Are==

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 ===Attacks===
 * The most common attack against passwords is to steal a list of passwords (or question answers) from some site that stores them.
-* One easy attack is brute force guessing of the password, which works well if the attacker has unlisted guess. This can be mitigated if the system does not allow a large number of guesses.
+* One easy attack is brute force guessing of the password, which works well if the  [[Attacker]] has unlisted guess. This can be mitigated if the system does not allow a large number of guesses.
-* Note that when the password is tased and the hash stored rather than the password, only limited protraction is give since the access to the hash allows unlimited brute force guesses.
+* Note that when the password is hashed and the hash stored rather than the password, only limited protraction is give since the access to the hash allows unlimited brute force guesses.
 * Also if the hash secret is shared as happens on Active Directory sites, the hash along high be sufficient to access another protection zone if the user reused the password.
 ==Something you Have==

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 ==Authentication Factors==
-[[Attribute]]s or [[Credential]] that are used in support of [[Authentication]] of a user's [[Identifier]].
+[[Attribute]]s or [[Credential]]s that are used in support of [[Authentication]] of a user's [[Identifier]].
 ==Context==