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+# uotp
+### Aims to replace ungleich-otp
+
+**uotp** is a full blown authentication and authorisation service
+made for micro services.
+The basic idea is that every micro service has a (long term) triple
+constisting of (name, realm, seed) and creates time based tokens.
+This basically revamps Kerberos in a simple way into the web area.
+uotp has been created and is maintained by ungleich.
+
+**Technologies Used**
+
+* Flask
+* PyOTP
+* Etcd