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A comment on Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'glitch'. Parent comment

Re:Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'g... by LgWoodenBadger on Thursday May 03, 2018 @10:51PM (#16991869)
Well how do you think TOTP works?
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Re:Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'g... by scrollaway on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:13AM (#16992766)
TOTP works by having huge margins of errors (minutes worth). The original post is suggesting using time of day as seed.
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Re:Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer 'g... by mehrdadn on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:28AM (#16993056)
The point was you could do similarly here. Just have a margin of like 30 seconds (or whatever). I never said you have to do this to nanosecond precision.
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