Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH) is an industry-wide collaboration to develop an open
reference architecture using
open standard
An open standard is a standard that is openly accessible and usable by anyone. It is also a prerequisite to use open license, non-discrimination and extensibility. Typically, anybody can participate in the development. There is no single definition ...
s to promote the adoption of
strong authentication. It has close to thirty coordinating and contributing members and is proposing standards for a variety of authentication technologies, with the aim of lowering costs and simplifying their functions.
Terminology
The name ''OATH'' is an acronym from the phrase "open authentication", and is pronounced as the English word "oath".
OATH is not related to
OAuth, an open standard for
authorization.
See also
*
HOTP: An HMAC-Based One-Time Password Algorithm (RFC 4226)
*
TOTP: Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm (RFC 6238)
*OCRA: OATH Challenge-Response Algorithm (RFC 6287)
*Portable Symmetric Key Container (PSKC) (RFC 6030)
*Dynamic Symmetric Key Provisioning Protocol (DSKPP) (RFC 6063)
*
FIDO Alliance
References
External links
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List of OATH membersOATH Specifications
Computer security organizations
Computer access control
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