Cannot reuse the secret

[gadelkareem]

in https://github.com/pquerna/otp/blob/master/totp/totp.go#L183 the secret should not be re-encoded since that is the final seed we will store in the DB. To be able to reuse the seed to generate a new key we need to add it as a final secret.

[codenoid]

agree, we should let user handle this kind of problem, but what we gonna do ? (start /v2 ?), this already like this from beginning

[gadelkareem]

V2 sounds like a good idea. Practically I noticed that most of the time you will create a new secret anyway. An easy fix would be decode the secret but might not be backward compatible.

[pquerna]

I'm confused about the gap here?

Generate(....) returns a *Key, which you can call .Secret() on?

[pquerna]

Closing for now - no clear defect or ask on what to change - please let me know if there is something that helps your use case.