Hardware Token Market Development Status & Technology Acquisitions: YubiKey, Gemalto, RSA Security, Entrust, EMC
Hardware token is a small, physical device. It provides authentication with token cards. Instead of receiving one-time passwords on the mobile phone the users obtain passwords from a token card. The customer assigns token cards to users that require the authentication method. Some of the hardware tokens having an internal clock that, in combination with the device's unique identifier, an input PIN or password, and potentially other factors, is used to generate a code.
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