Creating a Second Factor Authentication Token
Today I watched and took notes on a bunch of videos to try and better understand cybersecurity. I also wanted to find out what the general public knew about cybersecurity (through comments). Here are the videos I watched: “Gmail security key?”- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2fEPUtxMhc This guy in the video didn’t really have much of an understanding about U2F …
Building a custom security token has a lot of learning involved- especially at the beginning. Below is a list of what I have had to research and started to learn so far. Note: I have not even started to build my actual token yet. What I’ve learned so far: Programming Basics: Statements and Functions- syntax, …
After finding a co-op, the next thing is to figure out what you’ll be working on for the next 3 months. My project? Building my own second factor authentication token. The need to protect your online accounts is an increasingly important thing. Companies often have security breaches, and passwords (no matter the length) are easily …