Everything about Multi-factor authentication
Method of computer access control
Multi-factor authentication (MFA), also known as two-factor authentication (2FA), is an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting two or more distinct types of evidence to an authentication mechanism. MFA protects personal data—which may include personal identification or financial assets—from being accessed by an unauthorized third party that may have been able to discover, for example, a single password. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Multi-factor authenticationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Two-year effects of semaglutide in adults with overweight or obesity: the STEP 5 trialInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Top SecretThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.Cited 35,379 times
- Go sideways: One-time passwordA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Electronic authenticationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A ballroom dance in duple time, having long, sliding steps.
Noun A dance move consisting of two steps in approximately the same direction onto the same foot, separated by a joining or uniting step with the other foot.
Noun A piece of music for this dance.
Adjective Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see two, step.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
Ordered Metal Nanohole Arrays Made by a Two-Step Replication of Honeycomb Structures of Anodic Alumina
A finite sample correction for the variance of linear efficient two-step GMM estimators
Two‐step catalytic reactions
Two-Step Warfarin Therapy
Two-step electroweak baryogenesis
One-step and two-step estimation in SFA models
One-step and two-step contributions to two-nucleon transfer reactions
🆕 Influential since 2022
Two-year effects of semaglutide in adults with overweight or obesity: the STEP 5 trial
Sulfone‐Modified Covalent Organic Frameworks Enabling Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Generation via One‐Step Two‐Electron O 2 Reduction
Light-sheet 3D microprinting via two-colour two-step absorption
Modular Two-Step Route to Sulfondiimidamides
Two-step devitrification of ultrastable glasses
📚 Books worth reading
Top SecretJacqueline Lawrence · 2006
How to visualize and evaluate decision optionsEdgar Hartel · 2013
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🔗 Related topics
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