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+The GA4PHP Project
+==================
+
+GA4PHP means Google Authenticator for PHP.
+
+The purpose of this "library" is to provde a convienient and
+hopefully simple way of provisioning and authenticating users
+using the Google Authenticator mechanism
+
+
+Why?
+====
+
+Mostly cause I can. Recently i've been heavily interesting in
+what is "out there" for FOSS based authentication projects and
+the Google Authenticator is based on OATH - HOTP/TOTP. It also
+has a few kewl features, like providing its secret key via QR
+codes. But looking at the App's available for smartphones
+(android, iphone, etc), the google auth app was the only one
+that fullfilled some realistic criteria - easy to use, easy to
+provision.
+
+
+How?
+====
+
+Ultimately, this is just a library with a web based example,
+the purpose of which is to integrate into your exisint applications,
+those that are PHP.
+
+
+Complications
+=============
+
+The only real complication i've had so far is that alot of the
+HOTP based keys out there provide the secret key as HEX where
+google choose to use base32, of which there exist no single
+or simple implementation. So I wrote my (rather terrible so far)
+own as all i really want to do is convert from base32 back to
+hex, this I do by converting to binary first... Lets how thats
+going to work in the long run. The sad thing is is that if I
+were writing it in C/C++/etc, bit math is easy and while im sure
+its not too different in PHP, I've never done it, so this seeemed
+easier.
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