full-disclosure - One-Time Pad Authentication

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Message-ID: <200311301716.18672.jeremiah@nur.net>
From: jeremiah at nur.net (Jeremiah Cornelius)
Subject: One-Time Pad Authentication

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On Sunday 30 November 2003 16:40, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
<SNIP>
> 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).  

Uhhhh...

Is S/KEY suitable? 

http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/CSEL/skey/skey_eecs.html
http://www.freebsdsystems.com/handbook/skey.html
http://www.ja.net/CERT/Long/Securing_Remote_Access.html

You can run s/key calculators on PC's, Macs and even Palm Pilots (turning them 
into a token - of sorts).

Jeremiah Cornelius
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