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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2012
Daniel Bailey Vernon, Pepperell, MA (US);
John G Brainard, Sudbury, MA (US);
William M Duane, Westford, MA (US);
Michael J O'malley, Lowell, MA (US);
Robert S Philpott, Andover, MA (US);
Daniel Bailey Vernon, Pepperell, MA (US);
John G Brainard, Sudbury, MA (US);
William M Duane, Westford, MA (US);
Michael J O'Malley, Lowell, MA (US);
Robert S Philpott, Andover, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and apparatus for agile generation of one time passcodes (OTPs) in a security environment, the security environment having a token generator comprising a token generator algorithm and a validator, the method comprising generating a OTP at the token generator according to a variance technique; wherein the variance technique is selected from a set of variance techniques, receiving the OTP at a validator, determining, at the validator, the variance technique used by the token generator to generate the OTP, and determining whether to validate the OTP based on the OTP and variance technique.