Google has purchased SlickLogin, a three-person startup out of Tel Aviv, to help bolster the search giant’s two-step authentication efforts.
Now the days are not too far when you will be able to verify your gmail authentication by just placing your smartphone near your computer. Google Planning to provide sound based authentication to its users.
Today, if you’re looking to fortify your Google account beyond a single password, the two-step authentication process consists of you first logging in with your password, and then entering a second verification code that’s sent to your phone by way of a text message, a phone call or by using Google’s Authenticator app.
Google now wants to provide some relief and let you dont wait for a call or a text message. SlickLogin would automate the second stage of the verification stage. Instead of waiting for a call or a text message you would just place your smartphone next to your computer to authenticate your google account.
As per the announcement on SlickLogin’s site, “Google was the first company to offer 2-step verification to everyone, for free – and they’re working on some great ideas that will make the internet safer for everyone. We couldn’t be more excited to join their efforts.”
The SlickLogin sound passwords work like this: websites create a one-of-a-kind sound that is supposed to be inaudible to human beings, then an app on the smart phone would retrieve the sound, study it and reply to the website to confirm the identity of the user. The purpose was either to replace written passwords entirely or to be a back-up authentication system. The idea is to help Internet users avoid cyber crime.
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