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Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch

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248 points dogacel | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 13:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.239s | source
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coolThingsFirst ◴[15 Apr 25 16:31 UTC] No.43695209[source]▶
> Like the traditional password authentication approach, the user and the authority (server) still needs to agree on a common secret key.

Not sure what you mean by this, the server checks the hashed version of the password.

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1. dogacel ◴[15 Apr 25 17:55 UTC] No.43696261[source]▶
Hashing is done before storing the secret on the server side. Therefore they still need to communicate regarding the intial secret.