Research projects

Research & Development plays a very important role in the success of a business, especially in our domain. In addition to implementing industry standards based solutions, Token2 is also involved in a number of research projects in the area of strong security. On this page, we will list research projects of all types (academic, open source, commercial) where our team members were involved.

Projects

WiFiOTP: Pervasive two-factor authentication using Wi-Fi SSID broadcasts
Current status: Published
Partnership: University of Geneva, CUI, ITU
Summary
Two-factor authentication can significantly reduce risks of compromised accounts by protecting from weak passwords, online identity theft and other online fraud. This research presents a new easy solution to implement two-factor authentication without affecting user experience by introducing minimum user interaction based on standard Wi-Fi. It has been validated with different software and hardware implementations in a real life environment to show it can easily be deployed in many cases.

Publications
IEEE Xplore
ITU Kaleidoscope 2015
Archive ouverte UNIGE
Habrahabr(in Russian)

Source code
WifiOTP on Github
Beacon Authpath
Current status: Published
Summary
The idea of this project is to use the path as an additional authentication factor. BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacons are being deployed in smart cities, especially to augment the shopping experience of customers in real outlets. Thus, humans as they walk in cities pass by different beacons and the sequence of beacons form a path. In this paper, we present how those augmented paths can authenticate a user in a secure way whereby the users can prove they have passed by a path, even with current unsecure beacons. We have built a prototype to validate this new authentication scheme with unsecure Estimote beacons. In addition, as an alternative to BLE, a similar system utilizing Wi-Fi to detect user proximity is reviewed as well.

Publications
IEEE Xplore
Archive ouverte UNIGE