E-NUM is an up-to-date system of authentication providing high-level security. Security is based on both cryptographic tools and architectural level. A secret access key is stored not on your computer but on your mobile phone. Thus, you can use it to work on different computers. Moreover, your key cannot be damaged or modified by Trojan Hourses and other harmful programs.
Registration
A wap link is sent to the phone number provided by the user. Following this link, a special Java application will be downloaded into the mobile phone of the user. This Java application contains a unique cipherpad. This application can also be sent to the email provided by the user and the application can be installed from the computer. Confirming his registration on the E-num website, the user activates his cipherpad. From now on, the user can use this cipherpad as unique authorization means on different websites integrated with E-NUM.
Authorization process
E-num is easy to use: there is no need to memorize complicated passwords. The authorization process is based on the challenge-response model.
Authorization process by using E-NUM is very simple:
on the authorization page the user enters his email and received a Challenge Value
the users launches the E-num application on the mobile phone and enters the Challenge Value. After that a number-answer will be shown on the phone display
The user enters the number-answer in the authorization field on the website and gets access to secured sections
Advantages
The key advantage of E-NUM if compared with its analogs is efficiency and economy for both suppliers and consumers.
No additional authorizing server is required to implement the E-NUM authorization system on a website of an Internet store, in banking or corporate systems, because all necessary information is stored in the E-NUM database. Data exchange is performed by using E-num interfaces provided by the system via the secure https protocol. Clients use their (Java compatible) mobile phones to get authorized at websites integrated with E-NUM.
Users do not need any kind of expensive devices. A unique cipherpad is embedded in the Java application designed for mobile phones.
