Re:Ask HN: Why is WebAuthn so slow to take off?
by bawolff on Monday April 24, 2023 @08:27PM
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Ah ok. Its confusing because one of the requirements for time based one time password 2fa is that if you use the same 2fa token twice,it is still supposed to reject the second one even if it is in the same time window.
On the server side usually a "key" is stored, which for TOTP based 2fa would allow the attacker to create future 2fa tokens if they got ahold of the key. So what really saves you is the website choses the key not the user, meaning every website has a different one. Not the temporal nature.
Anyways, usual term for what you are referring to with reusing passwords is "credential stuffing".
On the server side usually a "key" is stored, which for TOTP based 2fa would allow the attacker to create future 2fa tokens if they got ahold of the key. So what really saves you is the website choses the key not the user, meaning every website has a different one. Not the temporal nature.
Anyways, usual term for what you are referring to with reusing passwords is "credential stuffing".