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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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