Swekey OTP token

Swekey OTP token

We would like to present you a new USB token, which recently came to us from France, it Swekey. The manufacturer Musbe, Inc (France), positioning it as easy to use and inexpensive token OTP (One Time Password - OTP) to access web resources. Business model Swekey - this is a paid subscription service authentication USB key through Web site Musbe.

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Support for this is built into the token Rohos Logon Key 2.7 (beta) (Windows + Mac). file copy protection software

Key Features Swekey:

• Price $ 15 (promise even cheaper)


• No driver required for Windows. Rather drivers are needed, but they are on the device (when connected to the computer, CDROM, which has the necessary drivers).


• Supports Windows, Mac and even Linux


• Implements challenge-response (challenge-response) For the authentication key


• Possible to use an additional password (two-factor authentication)


• Swekey already supports more than a dozen popular web services (OpenID, SquirelMai, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, SSH, Mantis, OpenSSO, Magenta, MediaWiki, phpMyAdmin, phpBB ...)


• You can integrate Swekey login even Usual password login form on site


• When you disconnect from the computer key Swekey - web site immediately close the session


• Options for "blocking" lost Swekey.

When generating OTP password, token uses a random value provided by the server, as well as some information on your computer. OTP password verification occurs on the server.

According to Luc Andre, CEO Musbe, the main advantages of this token are:

• A small price to token


• Automatic installation Swekey (Windows)


• Supports all web browsers for Windows, Mac, Linux


• Swekey web site - can recognize the moment of connecting the token and automatically log on. As well as the extraction yield Swekey.


• Immediate blocking and replacing the lost key


• Swekey authorization supports the case when the user has forgotten his key Swekey home.

Prototype USB key Swekey was given to us by Musbe Inc.