Patent ID: 7590847

Claim:
A method of authenticating a user to a network, the method performed on at least one computing device where the at least one computing device comprises a personal computing device, the user making use of the at least one computing device, wherein an IP-connection between the network and the at least one computing device is provided by a mobile telecommunication device, the method of authenticating the user comprising the steps of: requesting a temporary password from a service provider by transmitting an access request to the service provider, where the at least one computing device is configured to transmit the access request by means of the mobile telecommunication device, checking the access request on the basis of a user authentication database and asserting the access request if the user is authorized to access the network, generating the temporary password in response to an assertion of the access request, transmitting the temporary password from the service provider to the mobile telecommunication device, the mobile telecommunication device being adapted to authenticate the user to the network and authenticating the user to the network by means of the mobile telecommunications device.