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No, you use a shared secret which both you and the server can use to generate a one-time password. You send the OTP (over something like TLS still, yeah) and the server checks that it is valid and makes sure it can't get replayed.

Forgot to add /s to my comment.

Just to be clear, I wasn't disagreeing with you, I was disagreeing with the article. Their method over SSL/TLS is just as broken as you say.

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