Patent ID: 8861724

Claim:
A method of configuring a first computing device to provide a secondary authentication password for a password-protected web service, the method comprising: capturing, using an image capture device communicatively coupled to a first computing device, an encoded graphical image presented by a display of a second computing device, wherein the encoded graphical image comprises at least one indication of a uniform resource locator (URL), and at least one graphically encoded indication of how to use a secure authentication key to generate the secondary authentication password, wherein the URL indicates a location where the secure authentication key can be accessed; accessing the URL to determine the secure authentication key; storing the secure authentication key on the first computing device; generating the secondary authentication password using the stored secure authentication key and the at least one graphically encoded indication of how to use the secure authentication key to generate the secondary authentication password; and using the secondary authentication password to acquire access to a password-protected web service.