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Abstract

There is disclosed a method and system for verifying an identity of a user to a computer system. The user is assigned a user access code in the form of an invariant string of integers from 0 to 9, with length no greater than ten. The user access code is stored in the computer system; the computer system generates a ten-digit random or pseudo-random non-repeating string of the integers 0 to 9, the string having 1st to 10th positions each with a unique integer and having respective positional values 1 to 10; and the computer system performs a predetermined algorithm to combine the user access code and the random or pseudo-random string, thereby to determine a one-time verification code in the form of a string of the same length as the user access code. The computer system also generates 1st to 10th cells, the cells having respective locational values 1 to 10; populates the cells with the integers of the non-repeating string such that the locational value of each cell corresponds to the integer it contains combined with the random or pseudo-random string using the same predetermined algorithm as used previously; and displays the cells on a display. A user uses an input device of the computer system to select, in order, the cells on the display that contain the integers constituting the user access code. Each act of selection returns the locational value of the selected cell, thereby to generate a one-time transaction code comprising a string of integers from 0 to 9 having the same length as the user access code. The computer system then compares the verification code with the one-time transaction code and makes a successful identity verification if the verification code matches the one-time transaction code.

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