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Spooky23last Wednesday at 5:59 PM1 replyview on HN

The problem with TOTP is that it isn’t a second factor. It’s like Kerberos for the web. Passkeys are similar, only allow hardware devices with PIN.


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LelouBillast Wednesday at 6:28 PM

How is it not a second factor ?

It's something else that is unrelated to your password that you have to provide in order to log in, is that not the definition of a factor of authentication ?

Because it's phishable ?

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