Implementing TOTP two-factor authentication in 2025
Ignoring SMS, which is vulnerable to SIM-swapping
attacks, TOTP (Time-based
One-Time Passwords) is probably
the most popular second factor authentication method at the moment. While
reviewing a pull request adding support for
TOTP, I decided to investigate
the current state of authenticators in 2025 with regards to their support
for the various security
parameters.
A previous
analysis
from 2019 found that many popular authenticators were happy to accept
parameters they didn't actually support an...
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