- Safer Authentication with a One-Time Password Solution
- A traditional, static password is usually only changed when necessary: either when it has expired or when the user has forgotten it and needs to reset it. Because passwords are cached on computer hard drives and stored on servers, they are susceptible to cracking. This is especially a concern for laptops since they can be easily stolen.
- The authentication Web service is responsible for performing the actual OTP authentication by determining whether the provided OTP value demonstrates that the named user has knowledge of the secret key
- Unlike a static password, a one-time password changes each time the user logs in. The passwords themselves are generated in one of two ways: either as time-synchronized or counter-synchronized
GLOBAL XCHANGE R&D initiative in the implementation of OTP has been directed in two distinctspaces:
