mobile phone + password = 2 factor auth?

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 26 May 2009, Bryan Kearney wrote:

>> 
>> But that's the point of it being one factor of two factor auth...
>> 
>> Even if you compromise the txt msg you still don't have the component that 
>> the user knows. You only have the component that the user HAS.
>> 
>> -sv
>
> How about a token App for the iPhone? Download a certificate with seed data 
> for the algorithm.. and bobs your uncle.
>

Requires closed-source software. - No go.


-sv