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One-Time Passwords

Posted by davitb on 2nd October 2009

I decided to continue the series of “user authentication” related articles (which I started with article Conventional Website Authentication Model and its Weaknesses) and bring more details about one-time passwords.

In this article I will overview the following topics:

  • Basic ideas behind OTP
  • OTP Types
  • Vulnerabilities
  • Standards and Applications

To make the illustration of OTP more practical we will implement a web server with authentication from scratch by trying to integrate an OTP scheme.

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