The terminology is currently constantly expanding: not due to the emergence of new words, but due to giving additional meanings to existing ones. Such a phenomenon is easy enough to explain: it is easier to remember one more meaning of a familiar term than to suffer with one more, cumbersome and incomprehensible, for which a simplified short analogue has not yet been invented. As a result, it becomes interesting to study the definitions used in completely inconsistent areas. This phenomenon often arises thanks to abbreviations - a combination of the first letters of a verbose term. Here, for example, is the simplest question: "What is OTP?" We bet fans of fanfiction and computer science will think about very different things.
So, we will consider in order.
The amazing world of fanfiction
Fan fiction was the first to be mentioned - why not start with them. First of all, for those who are new to this word , it should be pointed out that fan fiction is jargon, which defines one of the varieties of fan creativity expressed in writing continuation stories, branch stories and other literary works based on your favorite book, film, franchises, and sometimes the lives of media people.
To be completely honest, fan fiction infringes copyrights and therefore is illegal. But this does not stop fans. So, there are cases when fan fiction became so popular that in the end they turned into full-fledged literary works.
Famous Examples
A striking example is Fifty Shades of Gray, which was originally planned and written as another Twilight fanfiction (the vampire saga Stephanie Meyer, whose wave of popularity has subsided recently). Now it is the best-selling book, ahead of even the sales of our funny Harry Potter in Britain. That, however, whether it is deservedly - is a completely different question.
But the Harry Potter fan fiction “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”, although it’s not going to be in the ranks of separate literary works, still has thousands of fans around the world, its own site is written by a person whose competence about what he puts on the Internet, don't even doubt it. The author is a respected scientist and researcher Eliezer Yudkowski.
The phenomenon of fan fiction was known much earlier before the advent and spread of the Internet - these are the many adventures of Sherlock Holmes, written not by Arthur Conan Doyle himself, but by his lovers.
OTP
So what is OTP in fan fiction? This abbreviation comes from the English OTP - One True Pairing (One True (Correct, True, True) Paring).
Peyring, in turn, is a couple in fanfiction, having some kind of romantic relationship. A favorite couple for a fan is his OTP.
OTP is rarely a canon, more often it’s a couple that fans bring together because of their chemistry in the work. A person who has an OTP is called a shipper, and his chosen pairing is a pair that he, in turn, shipper.
Although OTP suggests that it should be one thing, fans of many series, books, and entire invented Universes (the more widespread they are, the more fan art is born) there are many OTPs and everyone is more beloved of the previous one.
In the world of computer science
What is an OTP password? Again, starting from the English abbreviation One Time Password - it translates as a one-time password. The definition is exactly the same, similar.
OTP passwords are generated, controlled and verified by machines due to the inconvenience of their use by humans. Such devices are called OTP tokens.
What is it, how does it work, and where is it used?
The principle of operation is based on a particular algorithm for generating one-time passwords embedded in the device. Algorithms are constantly being improved for one main reason.
The fact is that OTP passwords significantly increase the security of data storage. An ordinary person is characterized by the following example of their use: one-time passwords are sent to bank customers to confirm a payment, as an additional security measure when withdrawing money from a card. The higher the security, the greater the guarantee of financial security the bank can offer.
One-time passwords are also used to restore a forgotten ordinary password, although not all services adopt this technology.
The OTP token itself is an amazingly simple device that has only one button for generating and a monitor for displaying a one-time password. In large corporations, OTP tokens are embedded in computer networks for operational generation and mobility of work.
Typically, an OTP password contains between 6 and 8 characters. The harder it is, the better. That's why it is disposable so that it does not have to be remembered.
And OTP is a bank
OTP is also a Hungarian banking group with branches in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, not to mention a number of other countries, including, of course, Hungary itself. It was founded back in 1949.
The answer to the question of what is OTP Direct is also extremely simple. It is an online bank, that is, a service whose capabilities include managing the client’s finances through the network. Simply put, this is the full range of actions that an OTP Bank client can perform on his card.
Every bank already uses this in view of the increasing introduction of digital, information and Internet technologies into the world of a simple layman. Network services increase the mobility of work and at times simplify it. Incidentally, it is precisely in them that OTP passwords are often used, which were discussed earlier in this article.