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Re: OTP broken?
Am Sat, 7 Nov 2015 14:33:22 +0100
schrieb Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>:
> Dieter Klünter wrote:
> > 6. added credentials by ldappasswd
> > userPassword::
> > e1RPVFAxfU5CVUVJNktFSk1ZRENOQlRHSTJUTVFLQ0lOQ0E9PT09
>
> I have not really tried the module myself yet but I note that the key
> is actually 21 bytes long (see below). Shouldn't that be 20 bytes?
>
> Ciao, Michael.
>
> Python 2.7.10 (default, May 24 2015, 14:46:10) [GCC] on linux2
> >>> 'e1RPVFAxfU5CVUVJNktFSk1ZRENOQlRHSTJUTVFLQ0lOQ0E9PT09'.decode('base64')
> '{TOTP1}NBUEI6KEJMYDCNBTGI2TMQKCINCA===='
> >>> s='NBUEI6KEJMYDCNBTGI2TMQKCINCA===='.decode('base64')
> >>> len(s)
> 21
The TOTP1 string is base32 encoded, not base64.
With regard to length, this might be a bug in google Authenticator, as
it would not accept a credential string shorter than mine.
-Dieter
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