Hey Rahul... I have seen this also... It's sort of neat and annoying all at the same time... I am just wondering if it's just a false sense of security to get more people to use there online banking... although I did read through their FAQs about this and they are saying they have been required by the FFIEC (Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council) to increase security... although computer registration remains optional... i would guess this is probably just a cookie... i am not sure about this, but will firefow run activex stuff??? if it won't I think you could eliminate the activex possiblity.... i do know that this site uses JSP as it's scripting language. Have a great day, hope i was able to help in atleast a little way Joe On 10/3/06, Wesley Acheson <wesley.acheson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
They could also be doing something like giving the client an SSH key to download, I've heard of this situation in a bank before. Though it does seem more likely that their just using cookie based authentication --------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rahul S. Johari" <rjohari@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: PHP <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:07:35 -0400 Subject: Client Computer Registration Ave, I saw this at the Key.Com website for Keybank Customers. When you go to their website to login to view your account, they ask you to register your computer for the first time. Once your computer is registered, you can access the account using that computer. You can choose to Not register that computer and you won¹t be able to access the account using that computer in future. What exactly are they doing? Can PHP record the MAC Address of the NIC in the computer? Or are they just recording the IP and creating an IP based filteration? I¹m looking to implement a similar security system for one of my applications. Any advice? Rahul S. Johari Supervisor, Internet & Administration Informed Marketing Services Inc. 500 Federal Street, Suite 201 Troy NY 12180 Tel: (518) 687-6700 x154 Fax: (518) 687-6799 Email: rahul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.informed-sources.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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