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Well, technically, everything that you have (and can provide as "proof") is susceptible to being interpreted as "something you know". If I know enough about tha
by virgilp 9y ago
Well, technically, everything that you have (and can provide as "proof") is susceptible to being interpreted as "something you know". If I know enough about that thing that you have, I can probably manufacture a good-enough replica that I can provide as "proof of ownership".
Think of the physical one-time tokens: If I know the data stored on it, I can replicate them too. So, are they "something you have", or "something you know"? The reason why they're "something you have" is that it's easier to have the physical ownership of the device, than to know they "secret" of the device. But, the same is true about Google Authenticator! In that respect, Google Authenticator can be, indeed, interpreted as "something you have".