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S/KEY

one-time password system developed for authentication to Unix-like operating systems
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S/KEY

Summary

S/KEY ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (32 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • S/KEY is credited with the discovery of Phil Karn[2].
  • S/KEY's subclass of is recorded as challenge–response authentication[3].
  • S/KEY's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/030pw1[4].
  • S/KEY's described by source is recorded as RFC 1760: The S/KEY One-Time Password System[5].
  • S/KEY's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 4957475[6].

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Works and Contributions

S/KEY is credited with the discovery of Phil Karn[2].

Why It Matters

S/KEY ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (32 views/month).[1] S/KEY has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . RFC 2289: A One-Time Password System. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). S/KEY. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/s-key
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_s-key_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{S/KEY}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/s-key}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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