Spartan Java

I decided to try out the new Java based version of Google Appengine. So i wrote a very simple web app that allows the user to generate one time passwords (OTP) using the HMAC-SHA1 algortihm (see OATH).

You can check it out at http://obovweb.appspot.com. As the name suggests its based on my obov library.
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A new version of obov is available for download. Some nice new features were added:

• Methods to generate passwords using the HMAC-SHA1 algorithm
• A handy utility method to generate secret keys (seeds) based on any given string

Go get it!

obov stands for OATH Based OTP validator. It’s a 100% pure Java library that provides simple to use methods to validate (and related utilities) one time passwords generated by OATH compliant devices.
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