# How does the Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) algorithm work? - Digital Bunker

<https://blog.digitalbunker.dev/2020/08/27/how-do-time-based-one-time-password-totp-services-work/>

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## What Jamie wrote

You probably use these codes all the time (or at least you should!). This is a very approachable article to how this system works.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT155: Weekly Thing #155 / Menu Engineers, Halo, RFC8890](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/155/), FYI

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