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The Authentication Model Contradiction Nobody Talks About
Authenticator apps look simple. They generate six-digit codes. The cryptography is forty years old. The protocol is an IETF RFC from 2011. You could probably implement the core algorithm in a lunch break. The genuinely hard part isn’t the TOTP maths. It’s a design tension baked into the product category itself, one that every authenticator app has to resolve, that most resolve quietly and without documentation, and that the industry has somehow decided not to discuss openly.
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