Clef is a San Francisco based technology company, known for developing a mobile app that creates a two-factor authentication for websites. It allows users to access sites with a single login password management service which stores encrypted passwords in private accounts. It has a standard verification method that requires access to data on the mobile phone to confirm the user's identity. The application requires a Wi-Fi or mobile network and user can login by waving the phoneat the screen.
Clef was founded in 2013 by Mark Hudnall, B Byrne and Jesse Pollak. It raised $1.6 in seed funding on 20 November.
Clef is available for all sort of content management system and easy to use with any website or application. It is most popular with WordPress community. Clef plugin was active over 1 million websites until they surprisingly announce on March 7, 2017, that they will no longer support this plugin after June 6, 2017.
The Clef plugin made logging into WordPress easy and more secure thanks to two-factor authentication. Clef is sunsetting and now users need to find an alternative.
Clef Plugin CEO recommends in his blog to transitioning away from Clef as a login method as soon as possible. [1] There are many alternatives for clef available.
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