[COLUG] Enterprise Two Factor Authentication

Duane duane at cacert.org
Tue Mar 13 06:43:13 EST 2007


Pat Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:01:45 +1100, Duane <duane at cacert.org> wrote :
> 
>> For further details, screen shots and those just curious you can see it
>> all at http://www.freeauth.org
>>
> 
> You scare me when I see code like this in php:
> 
> http://www.freeauth.org/site/wiki/One%20Time%20Passwords%20with%20PHP
> 
> You just know somebody is going to take that code and use it as written
> without scrubbing $username and $password.

I originally wrote that code for the CAcert website (although it has
been altered since the original version) and the website code uses
mysql_real_escape_string in the main code body since if the OTP function
fails it falls back to static password checks.

"It is a wiki!" :)

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Best regards,
 Duane

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