Implementation Strategies for Multifactor Authentication for E-Governance Applications through Restful Webservices

Governance means the exercise of political, economic and administrative authority in the management of a country’s affairs, including citizen’s interests and exercise of their legal rights and obligations. E-governance may be understood as the performance of this governance through the electronic medium in order to facilitate an efficient, speedy and transparent process of disseminating the required information to the public, and other agencies to perform the government administration activities. Authentication is the key to secure e-Governance applications and services. User name and password credentials are used for authenticating and authorizing, which is not sufficient. As Internet is more vulnerable nowadays, this one factor