Overview#

Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH) is an industry-wide collaboration to develop an open reference architecture using Open Standards to promote the adoption of strong Authentication.

Initiative for Open Authentication has close to thirty coordinating and contributing members and is proposing standards for a variety of authentication technologies, with the aim of lowering costs and simplifying their use.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Authenticator App
• HMAC-based One-Time Password Algorithm
• HOTP
• OATH
• Time-based One-time Password Algorithm
• YubiKey

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• [#1] - Initiative for Open Authentication - based on information obtained 2016-07-03-