Intuit Inc.
Method and system for providing distributed authentication

Abstract:

A system for distributed authentication provide third party authentication of access requests. A secure computing system is provided which ignores or otherwise denies all access requests from users that have not yet been validated by a separate validation computing system as being authorized to access the secure computing system, but once a given user is validated by a third party authentication system as being authorized to access the secure computing system, results data is made available on the third party validation computing system which effectively enables communication between a user computing system and the secure computing system. Communication is thereafter established and controlled with the user computing system by the secure computing system.