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Show HN: Auto-OTP: automatically send and receive OTPs, end-to-end encrypted

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Re: Show HN: Auto-OTP: automatically send and receive OTPs, end-to-end encrypted

#3
Hi HN. My name is Apoorve, I am 23 year old undergraduate student.

I share a lot of internet accounts (Netflix, prime etc.) with my friends and family, and recently have been in OTP (one-time-password) hell. I built Auto-OTP to securely send and receive OTPs from people I trust.

This is mostly meant as a beta release so please do check it out and share your feedback :)

Re: Show HN: Auto-OTP: automatically send and receive OTPs, end-to-end encrypted

#6
I built something similar with Shortcuts or whatever the iOS automation thing is called.

1. Receive otp 2. Launch automation which posts entire message content to url 3. Broadcast message to other people in my circle.

It works fine so long as my OTPs arrive correctly.

Re: Show HN: Auto-OTP: automatically send and receive OTPs, end-to-end encrypted

#9
So this automatically degrades 2-factor to… 1 factor again. The security model doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in me, being that you expect user-interaction as a means of security. It’s already bad enough people are tying their OTP with their credentials in password managers…
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