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Rare card · Science
Multi-factor authentication, a Rare card
Multi-factor authentication, also known as two-factor authentication, is an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting two or more distinct types of evidence to an authentication mechanism.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 155
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 220,000
Power 155 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Multi-factor authentication quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Multi-factor authentication card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Usage of MFA has ______ in recent years.
Answer
increased. Usage of MFA has increased in recent years. From the Multi-factor authentication article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Generalized anxiety disorder. Generalized anxiety disorder 86 · Francis Fukuyama 80 · Multi-factor authentication 77 · Water cycle 74 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- MFA protects personal data, which may include personal identification or financial assets, from being accessed by an unauthorized third party that may have been able to discover, for example, a single password.
- Usage of MFA has increased in recent years.
- Security issues which can cause the bypass of MFA are fatigue attacks, phishing and SIM swapping.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Multi-factor authentication article was read about 220,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Multi-factor authentication
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Multi-factor authentication in the power ranking, all domains together.
- BankRare · Society · ATK 81 DEF 74
- Bobby RiggsRare · Society · ATK 77 DEF 78
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-PérigordRare · History · ATK 79 DEF 76
- Dominick CruzRare · Arts · ATK 77 DEF 78
- Generalized anxiety disorderRare · Science · ATK 86 DEF 69
- ImamRare · Society · ATK 69 DEF 86
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Multi-factor authentication (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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