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by BoppreH 3338 days ago
Seems vulnerable to phishing. The attacker already uses phishing to get account number, password and phone number; now they just have to send a fake 2Factor message and observe how the number is translated.

Even if the function is lossy, it has very little entropy. Maybe even vulnerable to brute forcing...

I agree with the other poster, Google Authenticator looks like a better solution.

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Good points. After further consideration and from the other comment, I was basically thinking of a 3FA system.