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Choosing a Two-Factor Authentication System

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses the implementation of two-factor authentication at CloudFlare, a company that provides internet security services. It highlights the challenges faced in choosing an appropriate method for two-factor authentication and eventually settling on Authy's Time-based One-time Password Algorithm (TOTP) due to its superior features compared to Google Authenticator. The author emphasizes the importance of account security, especially after his own hacking experience, and how two-factor authentication is not a complete solution but an essential part of it.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
Nov. 28, 2012

Author(s)
Matthew Prince

Word count
1126

Language
English

Hacker News points
None found.


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