Systems and methods for state-less authentication

An apparatus comprising:

• at least one trusted computing environment component configured to facilitate:
• establishing a secure communication session between a user computing device and a logon component, wherein the secure communication session comprises a temporary, interactive information exchange that is set up and then torn down;
• verifying logon information provided by the user computing device to the logon component using the secure communication session and responsively generating a security context that is:
• unique to a user of the user computing device;
• necessary to access any of the plurality of resources without requiring any follow-on authorization communications between the accessed resource and the logon component.

A method to facilitate accessing protected on-line resources via corresponding secured transactions, comprising:

• at a user computing device:
• presenting, to other than the on-line resources, at least a logon identifier;
• responsively receiving a corresponding stateless security context that is unique to the user,
• wherein no request history is retained at the user computing device and authentication using the stateless security context is independent of a particular state, application, transaction, or routine being invoked;
• using the stateless security context to access a plurality of differing on-line resources via a plurality of corresponding secured transactions.