[COLUG] Enterprise Two Factor Authentication

Duane duane at cacert.org
Tue Mar 13 17:45:06 EST 2007


Jim wrote:
> Re http://www.freeauth.org/site/wiki/One%20Time%20Passwords%20with%20PHP, 
> 
> consider skipping the hexadecimal characterification of the md5() output. 
> I.e., consider changing: 
> 
>    $md5 = getOTP64(md5("$i$otphash"));
> 
> to 
> 
>    $md5 = getOTP64(md5("$i$otphash"),TRUE);

I think you meant:

 $md5 = getOTP64(md5("$i$otphash",TRUE));

however that only became an option in php5 and later and a lot of php
servers out there still use php4 or even 3 in some cases.

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 Duane

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