{"id":10217,"date":"2013-09-11T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/one-time-password-specifications\/"},"modified":"2013-09-11T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T17:06:00","slug":"one-time-password-specifications","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/23929\/one-time-password-specifications-otps","title":{"rendered":"One-Time Password Specifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_one-time_password_specifications_mean\">What Does One-Time Password Specifications Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>One-time password specification (OTPS) is an ongoing policy for creating an access control mechanism for systems that rely on or work on one-time password-based authentication (where the password changes for each login, hence is only valid one time). \n<\/p>\n<p>OTPS was first unveiled in 2005 by RSA Security for building information systems with strong security and authentication mechanisms.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_one-time_password_specifications\">Techopedia Explains One-Time Password Specifications<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>OTPS is primarily a suite security, which is developed using the joint effort of RSA and other security developers. The core objective behind OTPS is to facilitate the development and integration of OTP-based authenticating within information systems. \n<\/p>\n<p>As of 2013, RSA has published seven different security standards that comply with OTPS:<\/p>\n<p> \u00b7 CT-KIP: Cryptographic Token Key Initialization Protocol<\/p>\n<p> \u00b7 OTP-CAPI: Microsoft CryptoAPI profile for One-time Password<\/p>\n<p> \u00b7 OTP-Kerberos<\/p>\n<p> \u00b7 OTP-TLS: One-time Password Specification for Transport Layer Security<\/p>\n<p> \u00b7 EAP-POTP: Protected One-time Password for EAP<\/p>\n<p> \u00b7 OTP-WSS-Token: Web Services Security One-time Password Token Profile<\/p>\n<p> \u00b7 OTP-PKCS: One-time Password for Public Key Cryptography System<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does One-Time Password Specifications Mean? One-time password specification (OTPS) is an ongoing policy for creating an access control mechanism for systems that rely on or work on one-time password-based authentication (where the password changes for each login, hence is only valid one time). 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