@digitalpersona/authentication/docs/index.md

DigitalPersona Authentication API

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# Overview

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allows you to strengthen your web application security with multicactor authentication (MFA) 
seamlesly working with various authentication devices like fingerprint readers, card readers,
cameras for face recognition, FIDO tokens, OTP tokens, as well as with traditional credentials
like password, PIN or security questions.

## Dependencies

The library depends on 
* DigitalPersona Web Services API
* DigitalPersona Core API

It also requires DigitalPersona Web Components and DigitalPersona Authentication Server
running in your security domain.

Some authentication tokens (fingerprints, cards, U2F, Integrated Windows Authentication) 
require DigitalPersona Device Access API to read authentication data from a device and pass it
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### Browser support

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## Additional documentation:

* [Tutorial](./tutorial.md)
* [How-to](./how-to.md)
* [Reference](./reference.md)
* [Library Maintenance](./maintain/index.md)