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This is not an encylopedia article, it is jibberish that nobody can understand. What is a token? How do you use it? Does it work with browsers, if so how? Can you use it for bank login online? These are the kinds of questions the public are interested in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.65.241.142 ( talk) 12:40, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
The article starts with an incomplete or inconsistent list:
There are five (5) types of tokens:
1.Static password.
2.Synchronous dynamic password
3.Asynchronous password
4.Challenge response — Preceding
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Hello, The pages seem to not be secure. It appeared that they could be changed or modified. ??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.87.0.10 ( talk • contribs) 17:40, 5 February 2007
Some recent (as of August 2007) edits consist mostly in deletion of wikilinks allegedly not working. I assume good faith as much as the next person, but somebody could have deleted overzealously. Could someone expert in this filed check if anything is amiss, by having a look at this article's history? Happy editing, -- Goochelaar 22:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
I made several edits trying to clean the page up and make it less of an advert but the bottom section is still a mess. This page is turning into a vendor circus. Its too commercial and confusing. I think it might make more sense to focus on general the types and limit the vendors to brief mentions or references if they illustrate a specific point. Any comments on this? -- Tigereye7 ( talk) 16:20, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
62.198.224.178 ( talk) 12:06, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
From article: "The client enters the number to a local keyboard as displayed on the token (second security factor), usually along with a PIN (first security factor), when asked to do so."
That is an ungentle start of the section. What is a local keyboard. What is displayed on the token. What is the first and second security factor. What is the whole context of doing this.
213.165.179.229 ( talk) 09:02, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
What about small papers (often creditcard-sized) with some kode/key pairs printed on them? Some banks use that.
Do they also belong in the definition of a security toke?
213.165.179.229 ( talk) 09:10, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
There are five types of tokens: 1. Static password. 2. Synchronous dynamic password 3. Asynchronous password 4. Challenge response
Subj :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.113.102.144 ( talk) 16:32, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
I just moved an added listing about ArrayShield to a token-type category. If this is not the correct category, feel free to move it or if there is truly no category that fits, create a new one and explain the reasoning on this talk page. The last thing we need is every vendor under the sun making their own category and making this page more hairy that it is already. Descriptions should be objective, not promotional. Also, links should be relegated to references. If anyone disagrees or has something to add, I welcome your comments. Tigereye7 ( talk) 15:40, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
"Older PC card tokens are made to only work with laptops"
...except for those desktops that had PC Card adapters. Should the laptop only reference be removed? 99.245.248.91 ( talk) 04:09, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
not a regular Wikipedia editor, but upon scanning the article, looking for information on the subject, I noticed that alot of the English seems to be very oddly written (perhaps by a non-native speaker?). One particularly confusing example I found below during a quick scan:
"The major threat is by incautious operation. Users shall be aware of permanent options of threat."
The first sentence is comprehensible, if badly written, but the second is a mystery to me. Plenty of other similar examples I noticed during an only cursory read - a fair amount of rewriting seems to be requred. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.171.129.188 ( talk) 07:25, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
I'm rewriting the Authenticator article to align with the NIST Digital Identity Guidelines. [1] According to NIST, use of the word "token" is deprecated so I'd like to propose we change the name of this article from "Security token" to "Security key". Comments? Tom Scavo ( talk) 01:09, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
With OAuth and token based authenticator apps being the main context in which tokens are discussed, I think it is essential that the first paragraph be reworked to reflect the modern usage of the word. I may go ahead and do this later if I have time. I don't think that renaming the article is the solution here. Djstringcheese ( talk) 07:53, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
it would be nice to know, when the first security token has been created and was used? -- 2A02:908:1588:F580:887E:EC4C:5C13:68C0 ( talk) 13:45, 26 June 2019 (UTC)