Re: One-Time Pad Authentication

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:

> I'm interested in coding a one-time pad authentication system; similar
> to SecurID or other types of token authentication only with software
> tokens.  The administrator would generate the one-time pads for each
> user and distribute them using whatever secure method gets coded (PGP,
> SSH, or whatever).  

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.)

                                        BB

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