OTP Instead of Passwords: Less Pain, More Control
At VoteBoard, we moved away from permanent passwords and switched to sign-in with a one-time code from SMS. It’s more convenient for users, reduces phishing risk, and means you don’t have to remember yet another password.
In VoteBoard, we moved away from permanent passwords and switched to sign-in with a one-time code from SMS. For a board of directors, that’s a straight win-win: no need to keep yet another Qwerty123!-level password in your head, and the phishing risk is noticeably lower.
Why this way? Permanent passwords in 2026 already feel like legacy: leaks, reuse, “send me the code from the email” — the usual story. And OTP lives once and only for a short time, so it’s much harder for an attacker to pull off the good old social engineering trick.
After successful authentication, we log all actions in the audit trail with second-level precision. If something goes wrong, we can quickly reconstruct the sequence of events — no need to guess.
Bottom line: we built a sign-in flow that is convenient for users without breaking security. Sometimes the best UX is when you don’t have to remember anything 🙂