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                      4: .Dd 28 October 1993
                      5: .Dt SKEY 1
                      6: .Os NetBSD 4
                      7: .Sh NAME
                      8: .Nm S/key
                      9: .Nd a one time password system
                     10: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     11: .Nm S/key
                     12: is a procedure for using one time passwords to authenticate access to
                     13: computer systems. It uses 64 bits of information transformed by the
                     14: MD4 algorithm. The user supplies the 64 bits in the form of 6 English
                     15: words that are generated by a secure computer.
                     16: Example use of the S/key program
                     17: .Xr skey 1 :
                     18: .sp
                     19: .sp 0
                     20:     % skey  99 th91334
                     21: .sp 0
                     22:     Enter password: <your secret password is entered here>
                     23: .sp 0
                     24:     OMEN US HORN OMIT BACK AHOY
                     25: .sp 0
                     26:     %
                     27: .Pp
                     28: The programs that are part of the S/Key system are:
                     29: .Bl -tag -width skeyinit...
                     30: .It Xr skeyinit 1
                     31: used to setup your S/Key.
                     32: .It Xr skey 1
                     33: used to get the one time password each time.
                     34: .It Xr skeyinfo 1
                     35: used to extract information from the S/Key database.
                     36: It tells you what your next challenge will be.
                     37: .El
                     38: .Pp
                     39: When you run
                     40: .Xr skeyinit 1
                     41: you inform the system of your
                     42: secret password.  Running
                     43: .Xr skey 1
                     44: then generates the
                     45: one-time passwords, and also requires your secret
                     46: password.  If however, you misspell your password
                     47: while running
                     48: .Xr skey 1 ,
                     49: you will get a list of passwords
                     50: that will not work, and no indication about the problem.
                     51: .Pp
                     52: Password sequence numbers count backward from 99.
                     53: You can enter the passwords using small letters, even though
                     54: .Xr skey 1
                     55: prints them capitalized.
                     56: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     57: .Xr skeyinit 1 ,
                     58: .Xr skeyinfo 1
                     59: .Sh AUTHORS
                     60: Phil Karn, Neil M. Haller, John S. Walden, Scott Chasin