Questions tagged [one-time-password]
One-time password (OTP) protocols and implementations (software and hardware)
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Getting Time-OTP Secret Key from Activation and Serial keys [closed]
I recently registered with a bank that has an online banking platform. The platform website requires login with a proprietary OTP generator app. To activate this application, the bank sent me two ...
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Should i verify otp after login or before?
I am building a token-based authentication API, and I have three main methods:
Register Method: It takes credentials (email, password, phone number) and creates the user, then sends an OTP message to ...
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Is using the computer for MFA safe?
Recently, I discovered that MFA apps just calculate that codes based on a private key and the time clock, so it's easy to use tools like gnu pass to replace those apps with your computer.
But what are ...
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One Time Password Mobile phone authentication
Can the Mobile phone One Time Password authentication be alphanumeric with special characters?
If Yes, There will be more pros and less cons with increased security?
One Time password
Can a One Time ...
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How to limit user from making too many request on an API endpoint? [duplicate]
I have a form where the user can add his phone number then, he receives a verification code on his phone number to log in/register.
Now a user could make too many requests with generated valid numbers ...
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Adding salt to TOTP
I'm building an high velocity auth system, used both for user to machine and machine to machine authentication and authorization. To prevent a replay attack I'm adding a nonce to each request, but in ...
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Is reading off a OTP code over the phone standard practice?
I just called a number that I thought was my bank's and reached a customer service representative that asked me to verbally read to them a one-time passcode that was texted to my phone.
Is this ...
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Does this implementation of 2FA expose valid credentials?
I have come across scenarios where a website would send OTP once a user has supplied valid username/password. A confirmation dialog e.g. An OTP has been sent to your registered mobile number would be ...
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Does having authenticator app/OTP generator built into Password Manager defeat its purpose?
For example the KeepassOTP plugin is one of a few plugins for Keepass, that allows users to view their OTP code from within the password manager itself. Does this defeat the purpose of having a OTP as ...
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Matching the user IP on OTP
I'm not an expert on information security. But I'm thinking on a way to improve the security against social engineering attacks on the OTP password through SMS.
We know that in some cases careless ...
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Offline One Time Password algorithm
Sometimes when we login in some services we should enter One Time Password or OTP that can be received via SMS, e-mail or a voice call.
Among these options, there are some mobile apps that can ...
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Does Push 2FA protect against phishing/MitM better than TOTP?
I was having the debate of TOTP vs Push Notifications and found this claim online:
Is the 2FA method protected against phishing?
Chart Explanation: The most common method of phishing is persuading a
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Can OTPs substitute password? [duplicate]
One-time passwords (OTPs) usually serve as the 2nd factor in a 2FA scheme. But, in isolation, I believe they are more secure than passwords, since they are ephemeral and passwords are still badly ...
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Is OTP an acceptable alternative to a password in single-factor authentication?
I recently discovered that when I have two-step verification disabled on my Amazon account, Amazon will allow me to sign in to my account using only my phone number and an OTP code sent via SMS. I am ...
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Is it possible to design a system with two passwords?
Is it possible to design a system with two passwords prompts?
The system will have to prompt for two passwords
The system would have to validate first password before prompting for second password
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Is password-append OTP bad practice?
I recently encountered software that requires me to put my password followed by a TOTP token into a single entry field. (Similar as to what is depicted in this question).
While it can be debated ...
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SOTP - Signed One Time Password
I was thinking of a OTP algorithm that signs a randomly generated password.
There are two things at play here:
The MFA portal
Knows the public key of the user's MFA app
The user's MFA app
Has a ...
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Why we need complicate truncation for the OTP?
If we assume that Time based OTP generates the OTP using the hash function like SHA-3. Then, the generated OTP would Hash(Secret, Shared time).
We want a shortened string rather than a full hash ...
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Creating Password from 2 different part
I’m looking for Term Or Some platform for managing Password Authentication with this way :
Password construct from 2 Part ,
First one is static and you can make it and second Part Generate From TOTP ...
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Is passwordless OTP based authentication SOC2 compliant?
I have a client requirement to implement login without password. During sign in an otp will be sent to the user's email address and the user can use it to login. This will have an expiry.
No password ...
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Is it more secure to receive OTP or send OTP?
I am working on a project that requires users to set up 2-Factor Authentication. As an additional option (apart from the Authenticator app), users can choose their WhatsApp number as an authentication ...
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Is it necessary to have keep these 4 accounts separate from password manager?
Microsoft Authenticator requires an:
Outlook account
Verification account
iCloud account
The first two are required to set up the authenticator on a new device, the latter stores all the data to be ...
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What is GitHub authentication SDT ? And why is it sending OTP from a residential number? [duplicate]
I had enabled 2FA for GitHub using a mobile number. Today when I tried to log in from a different device, during the 2FA verification time, I received the code from a consumer phone number [ +91 ...
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How can I use a user's own SMS service to send OTP and make mobile number verification in my Android app?
Goal: I am building a app, i want to verify user's mobile number, the way i am using is when user enters the mobile number, I send OTP to that number and ask user to enter the otp to verify the mobile ...
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Malicious SMS and iMessage Interception
I have an interesting situation on my hands. There are people in my neighborhood that have been harassing me for some time now. It appears that these individuals can are receiving my text (sms) ...
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Should a user refill their 2FA when they login into a different account and back?
Some of our users on our website have two or more accounts they use to log in. With each device they log in a specific device ID is generated. This device ID is stored on the device itself and on the ...
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Is it a bad idea to replace passwords with OTP?
As I understand things, given a user with proper password management (e.g. with a libre password manager like KeePassXC) the only realistic threat is having passwords leaked the following ways:
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What’s the best way to only allow a file to be opened with multiple people’s authorisation?
Is there software available that makes it easy for multiple authorisations to be required before a file can be opened? The simplest solution I've found online is to encrypt a file with a password, ...
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Backup Google Authenticator transferring QR code
I understand that saving a screenshot of the QR code during the OTP setup process is enough to back up a single account, however, is this the same for the QR code generated during the Google ...
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Storing OTP seeds in password manager [duplicate]
I am storing my passwords in a password manager (keepass). Also I am using keepass to set up one-time passwords for some accounts. Keepass is storing the seeds of the OTP's in its database.
If my ...
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Are there still ways that OTP is safer than FIDO?
From my reading I understand that USB keys (for example Yubikeys) are more secure than OTP authentication apps (such as Google Authenticator). The primary reason is that FIDO is done without human ...
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Security of email OTP authentication
I'm building my own authentication and deciding on the signup/login flow. I'm would like some security feedback on this type of flow:
User submits email address.
6 character alphanumeric one-time-...
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Is this a secure way of authenticating, advice on what to change?
I have a few terminals that I currently use a static IP to authenticate. The problem is in my country the internet is not stable, so often I have to switch to mobile data, then the terminals can't ...
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Does TOTP make sense for verification codes?
I know that the concept of TOTP is for when the device on which the code is to be verified is separate from the device that is going to generate the code.
However, I was wondering if it is a bad idea ...
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Is a "magic link" a kind of authentication?
From what am I reading, magic links require users to provide their email and the user will be sent an email with the link to sign-in, and the users can use this link to log into the system.
Can this ...
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Sending OTP before authentication / password verification
One of my old, rarely used computers had still an old password for my pyszne.pl / takeaway.com account stored in my browser's password manager. I tried to log into my account from that computer and ...
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Does it make sense to split two factor authentication between identity providers
A common multi factor authentication solution will ask a user for a username+password and a one-time password.
In all documents I can find both factors are asked by the same identity provider. This ...
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Are offline OTP systems really secure? [duplicate]
I know that OTP (One-time password) system is the most secure method for now if online.
Online OTP systems, like sending code to a phone is secure because the attacker cannot know the code if he doesn'...
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How to verify OTP codes offline?
I have a use case to generate one time codes, and need to, in some cases, verify them offline. A use case:
On arriving at customers door, the delivery agent needs to verify that they dropped off a ...
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Multiple login attempts made using mobile OTP in multiple customer sites at the same time
We have multiple customer sites which provides login via mobile number OTP option (new & registered users). Recently, we come across an incident where a user received 100+ OTPs with in few minutes ...
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How secure is to authorize a website to "trust your device"?
A bank has a form of 2FA where, after you put in your username and password, they send a code via SMS to your mobile phone and you have to put that too.
On the screen asking for the SMS code, there ...
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What is the impact if there is Race Condition while submitting OTP?
I recently came across a web application where it was asking for an OTP after a successful login.
Let the endpoint be https://www.example.com/otpcode
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What are the security flaws in web based TOTP app?
If there is a widely accessible TOTP website (prototype: https://depperm.github.io/) that allows users to set a date and secret they can remember or a package that allows companies/developers to ...
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6 digit code to access the account?
All my security senses are tiggling when I wrote the title, but here's the scenario:
When a user wants to connect to their account, but can't remember their password, they can use the "Lost ...
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Why don't OTPs have letters?
Is there a reason why OTPs (one-time passwords) are only made up of numbers? I've seen OTPs of varying lengths but all of them are only made up of numbers. Why are they not alphanumeric?
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Securely detecting and correcting time drift for TOTP
RFC 6238 recommends the server to implement some form of resynchronization algorithm to account for time drift of the device used to generate the OTP. However, the RFC provides very little information ...
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Don't one-time recovery codes for 2FA introduce a backdoor?
Although using multi-factor authentication is clearly a good move, I'm struggling with the 'one-time recovery codes' concept. It seems to me that if you choose to use them, what you're doing is ...
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Can OTP (One-Time password) be used to protect data after intrusion has been detected? [closed]
I am working on Social Engineering attacks happening via SMSs. Let's assume a person receives an SMS asking him to click on a malicious link. If a virus is installed on the person's device, how can ...
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How should I share a TOTP shared key with my users?
I want to add one-time passwords as gates for certain important actions in the application I am working on. It is not two-factor authentication, although it may be extended to that use case later.
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Magic links: JWT vs random string
Tutorials I've come across about implementing magic link authentication (in Node) recommend a mechanism like this:
the user hits your endpoint with their email address
you generate a signed JWT from ...
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