Mastercard Incorporated
ENHANCING 3D SECURE USER AUTHENTICATION FOR ONLINE TRANSACTIONS

Abstract:

An enhanced 3D Secure user authentication process and system. In some embodiments, a consumer device processor of a consumer device running a Web Authentication application programming interface (API) transmits a request to a relying party device requesting use of an enhanced 3D Secure authentication service. The consumer device processor then receives a request to authenticate a consumer from the relying party device by using a specific customer verification method (CVM), prompts, by running the Web Authentication API, the consumer to provide input in accordance with the CVM, receives input data in accordance with the CVM from an authenticator of the consumer device, verifies the consumer based on the input data, generates an authentication data package and transmits to the relying party device the authentication data package for processing and forwarding to a 3D Requestor environment.