OATH Toolkit - Summary

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OATH Toolkit provide components to build one-time password authentication systems.  It contains shared C libraries, command line tools and a PAM module.  Supported technologies include the event-based HOTP algorithm (RFC 4226), the time-based TOTP algorithm (RFC 6238), and Portable Symmetric Key Container (PSKC, RFC 6030) to manage secret key data.  OATH stands for Open AuTHentication, which is the organization that specify the algorithms.

The components included in the package is:

  * liboath: A shared and static C library for OATH handling.

  * oathtool: A command line tool for generating and validating OTPs.

  * pam_oath: A PAM module for pluggable login authentication for OATH.

  * libpskc: A shared and static C library for PSKC handling.

  * pskctool: A command line tool for manipulating PSKC data.

Registration Date: Mon 07 Dec 2009 11:55:16 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable