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a multi factor authentication requires at least two sets of credentials. This is typically something you know (e. g. a password) and something you own (e. g. a token generator or mobile phone), but could also be something you are (a biometric).

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How to use MFA without relying on a smartphone?

They made and still make dedicated hardware OTP tokens. I had one for my bank for years and even used one in my corporate environment well into 2010s. For example as of 2023 in no order and not an en …
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SOTP - Signed One Time Password

I guess this isn't a definitive answer, not sure there is one. But food for thought: In theory this all makes sense. But signatures are based on a hash operation and even MD5 with base64 formatting …
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LastPass - Can MFA stop hackers from cracking a local vault?

Encryption is deterministic, given an input and key, it will always decrypt. There is no way to involve a random number sent over text in the process. Further decryption isn't really authenticating …
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