Arcot Advisor
THE AUTHENTICATION AUTHORITY™ NOVEMBER 2007
   

10 Little Known Tidbits

Binary CodeDo you think you are an Arcot expert? Put yourself to the test.

Cryptographic Camouflage is:

  • A patented technology (Patent #6,170,058)
  • Reviewed by PKI experts Martin Hellman and Taher Elgamal
  • Included in Adobe Reader 8.0 and above
  • Fully described in a 1999 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) paper
  • Can be used to protect private keys of certificates from any certificate authority (CA)
  • Can appear like a username/password login perform a traditional PKI challenge/response in the background
  • Does not create new algorithms, but rather uses existing algorithms in an innovative way
  • Does not require existing applications to be modified – if they can work with a physical smart card, they can work with an ArcotID
  • Can be deployed with or without an installed client
  • Was the first multi-factor token to be integrated with Microsoft CardSpace

Cryptographic Camouflage is an innovative technology that stores tokens in 100% software, offering the only strong authentication, software-only solution. The technology has been hailed by PKI experts as the solution to a problem companies have been struggling with for years.

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