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A '''Transaction authentication number''' or '''TAN''', is used by some [[online banking]] services as a form of ''single use'' [[password]]s to authorize [[financial transaction]]s. TANs are a second layer of security above and beyond the traditional single-password [[authentication]].
 
An outline of how TANs function: