Browsing the blog archives for May, 2012.

Announcing OATHAuth, a two-factor authentication extension for MediaWiki

MediaWiki, Wikimedia

I’ve just released OATHAuth 0.1 for MediaWiki. This is an HMAC based One Time Password (HOTP) implementation providing two factor authentication. This is the same technology used for Google’s two-factor authentication.

OATHAuth is an opt-in feature that adds more security accounts in a wiki. It provides two-factor authentication, using your phone as the something you have, and your username/password as the something you know. If you are using iPhone or Android, you can use the Google Authenticator app as a client. There are also clients for most other phones and desktops; Wikipedia has a good list of clients.

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