Trying out Google Appengine – OTP generation app

posted 15-Jul-2009 | 4 comments

I decided to try out the new Java based version of Google Appengine. So i wrote a very simple web app that allows the user to generate one time passwords (OTP) using the HMAC-SHA1 algortihm (see OATH).

You can check it out at http://obovweb.appspot.com. As the name suggests its based on my obov library.

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obov v1.1.0 released

posted 4-Aug-2008 | 2 comments

A new version of obov is available for download. Some nice new features were added:

  • Methods to generate passwords using the HMAC-SHA1 algorithm
  • A handy utility method to generate secret keys (seeds) based on any given string

Go get it!

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obov v1.0.0 released

posted 27-Jun-2008 | no comments

obov stands for OATH Based OTP validator. It’s a 100% pure Java library that provides simple to use methods to validate (and related utilities) one time passwords generated by OATH compliant devices.

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