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by Spooky23 1644 days ago
I wish TOTP supported a PIN. That omission makes it pretty useless for high security applications.
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You want your secret to have a secret? Several apps that provide time based one time password storage/management can also be secured with bio-metrics, pins or passwords (Aegis, MS Authenticator). Are you specifically thinking physical tokens only?
If you need to conform with higher NIST assurance levels, a one time password generator needs to have a secret as well.

Commercial solutions support this with challenge/response tokens or PINs. I’d love to see an OSS solution.

Perhaps you could link to these NIST standards?
What do you mean by that? The TOTP standard doesn't specify how (if at all) the client is secured. Besides, the one-time code is used in addition to a password, not as a substitute for one.