I want to create an HOTP client using javascript similar to SpeakEasy
The above library is intended for server side javascript usage and it uses NodeJS.
I want to do the same thing on front end javascript in a browser but I haven't been able to use CryptoJS to achieve this behavior.
var key = "abc";
var counter = "123";
// create an octet array from the counter
var octet_array = new Array(8);
var counter_temp = counter;
for (var i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
var i_from_right = 7 - i;
// mask 255 over number to get last 8
octet_array[i_from_right] = counter_temp & 255;
// shift 8 and get ready to loop over the next batch of 8
counter_temp = counter_temp >> 8;
}
// There is no such class called as Buffer on Browsers (its node js)
var counter_buffer = new Buffer(octet_array);
var hash = CryptoJS.HmacSHA1(key,counter_buffer);
document.write("hex value "+ hash);
document.write("hash value "+ CryptoJS.enc.Hex.stringify(hash));
I know this is possible on a native platform like java (android) or objective c (ios) Here is the corresponding implementation HOTP in Objective C but I doubt if it's possible to do on a web based front end.
Also, I highly doubt if such a thing is secure in browser because javascript is viewable from any browser. Any inputs suggestions would be useful. I am doing this for a POC. I am curious if anyone has used Hotp on web based platform.