Futurae: Strong Authentication (2FA) and App Security

Sep 29, 2015

By Claudio Marforio

Sep 29, 2015

- By Claudio Marforio

Sound-Proof was accepted for publication at Usenix Security 2015! Nikos did a very good job at presenting it and answering very interesting questions from the attendees.

Find out more about the publication and the presentation over at the Usenix website.

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