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Re: [Full-Disclosure] One-Time Pad Authentication
- To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonathan@nuclearelephant.com>
- Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] One-Time Pad Authentication
- From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar@thievco.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:40:25 -0800
Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
I'm interested in coding a one-time pad authentication system; similar
to SecurID or other types of token authentication only with software
tokens. The administrator would generate the one-time pads for each
user and distribute them using whatever secure method gets coded (PGP,
SSH, or whatever).
You don't actually mean a one-time pad, do you? Sounds like you're
referring to a one-time token authentication system, especially since you
mention SecurID. (I mention this because a few responses are reacting to
you mentioning an OTP, but I don't think that's what you meant.)
BB
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