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Re-issuing tokens sounds like a poor-man's nonce. I skimmed the pseudo-code in their paper, immediately said to myself 'uhh..', then a section later they addressed my 'uhh..' by admitting replay attacks are effectively trivial.

In some cases, no security is better than bad security, because at least your users are aware of the insecurity. (Granted, you're protecting against the replay attack - my point still stands for anyone even considering implementing something based on that paper.)



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