Full Disclosure: Re: One-Time Pad Authentication

["Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonathan () nuclearelephant com>]

> 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.)
Actually I was interested in a pad...not a seeded authentication
mechanism.  I realize there's a key distribution issue, but it's not
difficult to give out a CD with a few years worth of codes on it.

Seeded will suffice though, in lieu of rolling my own OTP.

I've been using SecurID at the companies I've worked at, so I didn't get
a chance to see what's on the open source network, but now that I'm
looking to implement this on my own systems, looks like a couple of the
tools people mentioned might work.  

Jonathan




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