South Africa On Lockdown - Coronavirus - Update!

Keith Medcalf kmedcalf at dessus.com
Mon Mar 23 20:39:43 UTC 2020


On Monday, 23 March, 2020 14:21, Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> wrote:

>Software-based TOTP offer more security than no one-time passwords, but
>admittedly less than the physical tokens. Google Authenticator, Authy,
>1Password, LastPass all support TOTP.

Hardware tokens are nothing more than dedicated hardware TOTP devices with perhaps a few additional parameters programmed at manufacturing time.  Example, RSAID keyfobs are nothing more than TOTP generators with manufacturer programmed secrets and dedicated clock and display hardware with no external interface which permits access to the secret.

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