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Given the number of services that turned out to use plaintext or trivial password hashing (e.g. MD5), I would bet there are a bunch of services out there that do not effectively limit OTP attempts.

It’s been a long time since I did any work on a real authentication system — since before TOTP was common, anyway. I appreciated the post and found it interesting.



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