Nevertheless I chose my Yubikey instead.

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[–] 61 points 2 years ago (6 children)

that's a refreshing change from the regular Google Authenticator and Authy mentions.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Apparently it is hard to export out of authy

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    EhrenBVG. Wie immer.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago*

    Incredibly based.
    Come to think of it, it's sad how we've got so accustomed to be suggested Google Authenticator and the other big corp data funnel 2FA apps by the services that support it

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    If you get Bitwarden pro (really cheap), you can save an OTP link together with the site credentials, it's really good for keeping everything in one place

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I do this. I want to point out it is absolutely TERRIBLE for security. It's turning 2 factor back into 1 factor authentication.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    I would argue its more like a 1.5 factor. Not secure when your bitwarden gets compromised. But more security for stolen, leaked, phised passwords.

    I currently have 60 OTPs in Bitwarden, I probably would not have activated 2FA on so many sites without BW.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    This isn't really a good idea because then you're putting all your eggs in one basket. The whole point of 2FA is that the second factor is in a separate location so if your first factor (password) gets compromised the second one (OTP code) still protects your account. If both factors are in one place you're back to a single point of failure instead of 2, losing a key benefit of 2FA.

    If you're gonna do this, at the very least have 2FA with a security key on your bitwarden vault.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You lose security, sure. But you are gaining so much more ease of use. Bitwarden autofills your credentials and puts your token into your clipboard. Also it syncs your tokens to all devices. Effectifly this makes a site as easy to login as a site without 2fa.

    The alternative is on desktop always get your smartphone, open some app type a token or on the phone to switch to multiple apps to get your credentials. Not fun imho.

    I currently activated 2fa on over 60 sites, I doubt I would use it as much without BW.

    For me, the key benefit of 2Fa is getting more security against leaked, stolen, phished passwords, and that still holds up.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    The alternative is on desktop always get your smartphone, open some app type a token or on the phone to switch to multiple apps to get your credentials. Not fun imho.

    There are desktop apps for OTP, you don't need a phone. And since you only need to setup an OTP secret once, doing it for your phone and pc isn't that big of a deal.

    I have my OTP secrets in 3 places, 2 yubikeys and my phone's authenticator app, with the former meant for my PC.

    For me, the key benefit of 2Fa is getting more security against leaked, stolen, phished passwords, and that still holds up.

    If your vault doesn't have 2FA too this doesn't hold up though. Means you're trusting a single service that can get hacked with all your secrets. Sure, your other accounts are more protected against leaks and stuff, but if your password vault isn't, you didn't really change much, just pointed the hackers to one single place.

    Yes I know hacking a password vault isn't some walk in the park and rarely happens, but the point is any leaks from it would be 10 times more catastrophic for you if all your OTP secrets are also stored in it. I'll spare myself from that nightmare with the small inconvenience that is a separate, offline OTP app.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In India, they force us to install proprietary apps, which are probably spying on us.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    BVG is acronym for Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, Berlin's public transport agency.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    andOTP is opensource, backs up locally, remotely, encrypted, or unencrypted. has no back doors, and will work with any DFA i can chuck at it.

    its an archived project but still works fine in modern android

    https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Are there well known TOTP apps with backdoors?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Anything closed source could have backdoors. Trust no one.

    Why does MS Authenticator need GPS permissions?

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.azure.authenticator

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    As per their FAQ:

    Permission to access your location

    Q: I got a prompt asking me to grant permission for the app to access my location. Why am I seeing this?

    A: You will see a prompt from the Authenticator app asking for access to your location if your IT admin has created a policy requiring you to share your GPS location before you are allowed to access specific resources. You’ll need to share your location once every hour to ensure you are still within a country where you are allowed to access the resource.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    I self host Bitwarden (Vaultwarden) so I just use the built-in TOTP authenticator in the Bitwarden app. It's nice to have it all in one place + having auto copy and paste when I log in. And because I self host, it's all backed up securely and with (as far as I know) no real backdoors.

    ETA: just realized what community this is in. people that replied to me I'm sorry lmao, I'm not a nut about this kinda stuff and I'm by no means recommending this just like using it this way for convenience factor and to keep the likes of google out of my password.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    No, please do not do this. Two factor authentication should be just that: two separate factors of authenticating yourself. Having them combined in one is the same as one factor.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Said in the reply to the other comment here, but I don't really self host for security/privacy sake. And in addition to that comment I'd also like to say that I do use a YubiKey when possible for MFA. I'm not a security nut enough to care about TOTP (which kinda sucks anyway) all too much but for important things I do use physical MFA.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Yeah it compromises the idea of a second factor. Bitwarden is the worst choice. It's only one thing: comfortable

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Fair, although I've said in a comment on this account somewhere else, I self host more for convenience sake than anything. I just like having my own password manager, sure it's not as secure to use it for MFA but it's better than giving my passwords to Google, LastPass, etc. and then using eg Google Authenticator. Self hosting is more a corporate distrust thing than a privacy thing for me

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I do the same thing. And Bitwarden's 2FA is off my phone. In a complicated world, it's reasonable to keep 1 password + 2FA as secure as possible. I simply can't handle the hassle of pulling out my phone for every 2FA login, but still value the protection 2FA + randomly generated passwords provide.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I went for another foss one a while ago, works flawlessly https://authenticatorpro.jmh.me/

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    FreeOTP+ is the choice not Free OTP...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    According to Wikipedia it's based on google authenticator. Is it known how much google code is still in there?

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    This is becoming a trend and I really don’t like it.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)
  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Setting restrictions on what 2FA/authenticators we can use. I imagine it’s only a matter of time before Google functionally makes it so you can only use theirs when using their services.

    Edit: I assumed it was some of the messages I’ve seen elsewhere, my mistake. I don’t need everybody repeating the same comment. Please read the responses before telling me the exact same thing over and over again guys lol

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 2 years ago

    At least for what I just posted this isn't a restriction. Its a recommendation. You can still use any other app. I thought its nice that they recommend the privacy friendly ones.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I've gone tons of places that say use Google Authenticator (only) and I just summon the QR code and scan with Aegis anyway and it always works fine. I've never seen a place that required a certain one.

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