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jmml97
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10 months ago

TOTP URI 'period' parameter is ignored if value is above 255

Hi. I am a long time 1Password user. I recently set up a new service that uses TOTPs. The problem I am having is that the codes needed for this service are synchronized with a period of 300 second...
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jmml97
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10 months ago

Hi 1P_Dave!

Thank you for your answer and your testing.

I need to use that period because the service I am connecting to uses TOTPs with a period of 300 seconds. It is something the service sets on their end, so** it's not something that I can change on my own*. I agree it's more common to have 30s but in this case **they have chosen to use 5 minutes* as their TOTP period.

The way it fails silently on 1Password after 255 and that being exactly 8 bytes it seemed to me that it's a bug. But that's only a guess.

Thanks for your help.

José María