HMAC-based one time password in C# (RFC 4226 - HOTP)

Question

I am attempting to wrap my brain around generating a 6 digit/character non case sensitive expiring one-time password.

My source is http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4226#sec

Answer 1

This snippet should do what you are asking for:

  public class UniqueId
{
    public static string GetUniqueKey()
    {
        int maxSize = 6; // whatever length you want
        char[] chars = new char[62];
        string a;
        a = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890";
           char[] chars = new char[a.Length];
        chars = a.ToCharArray();
        int size = maxSize;
        byte[] data = new byte[1];
        RNGCryptoServiceProvider crypto = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider();
        crypto.GetNonZeroBytes(data);
        size = maxSize;
        data = new byte[size];
        crypto.GetNonZeroBytes(data);
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(size);
        foreach (byte b in data)
        { result.Append(chars[b % (chars.Length - 1)]); }
        return result.ToString();
    }
}