How Do Hardware Token Devices work? [closed]

This has very little to do with hash functions. A cryptographic hash function may be part of the implementation, but it’s not required. Actually, it generates the digits on a time-based interval, if I press the button for it to generate the digits, it generates the digits and after about 25 seconds, and I press … Read more

How to add Google Authenticator to my website?

The key phrase that you’re looking for is “TOTP” (Time-Based One-time Password) – and it is a specification, rather than an API maintained by Google. At a very high level, your backend will generate a secret that it will share with your users’ Google Authenticator app. At login, both the Authenticator app and your backend … Read more

Is there a tutorial on how to implement Google Authenticator in .NET apps? [closed]

While playing around with Google Authenticator, I came across this question and in particular the code contributed by Espo. I personally wasn’t satisfied with the conversion from Java to C# and so I thought I would share my version. Aside from heavily refactoring the code: Introduced check for little-endian byte ordering and convert to big-endian … Read more

Sending email fails when two factor authentication is on for Gmail

Create a custom app in you Gmail security settings. Log-in into Gmail with your account Navigate to https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords In ‘select app’ choose ‘custom’, give it an arbitrary name and press generate It will give you 16 chars token. Use the token as password in combination with your full Gmail account and two factor authentication will … Read more

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