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The core idea is that this eliminates the need for end-users to remember multiple passwords, to receive passwords via SMS or to carry any other authentication hardware e.g. tokens issued by banks for one-time-passwords.
The company is vague on the details as to what those may be, but may be referencing other methods to secure accounts like two-step/two-factor authentication, hardware dongles, or perhaps even some web-based variation of Android's "Smart Lock" system.
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All these services require biometric authentication via hardware, meaning that you need to have a device with a fingerprint sensor to use Samsung Pay.
Like Apple Pay, Google's Android Pay will use NFC for transmission, and will also support biometric authentication via hardware like the Samsung Galaxy S6's fingerprint scanner.
The TCG Storage Security specification implemented in the Travelstar 5K500.B supports pre-boot authentication in hardware, and up to four separate encrypted data ranges with multiple user and administrative authentication credentials.
While Duo Push is a key differentiator for the company, it also supports more traditional forms of two-factor authentication, including hardware-based tokens and SMS passcodes.
Intel's Identity Protection Technology can allow consumers to use two-factor authentication and hardware-based display protection, which provides increased online security against malware.
On the PS2, modchips are primarily used to bypass the hardware authentication performed on PS1 and PS2 game discs.
Yubico has launched the smallest version of its popular YubiKey hardware authentication and encryption devices yet: the $60 YubiKey 4C Nano.
If you don't have any of those devices or you don't want to introduce them into your environment, Ping also works with Yubikeys, a small hardware authentication tool.
All this while providing high security and a "non-social" option for authentication that ties hardware and software together – a critical combination that today's leading identity provider, Facebook, doesn't have.
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