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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aegis. Never use a local-only 2FA app on your phone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What's the problem with it being local-only? Just backup the secrets, and you're good? Or is backing it up the "online" element?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like a password manager, I can't trust myself for the seeds to get misplaced.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

First, that's what recovery codes are.

Second, that's what backups are for.

Frankly, given what we've seen with LastPass this past year alone, there is absolutely no one I would trust to host any of my credentials.

My TOTP seeds go in a Keepass database that has a very long passphrase. That database is then sync'd across devices with syncthing and included in encrypted backups.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Authy, having paid bitwarden and 2FA in one app is a disaster waiting to be happen in case of a security breach.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Out of all hosted options available that I lasted tested 2-3 years back, Authy is the only one that reliably syncs and backups seeds across devices. I would switch in an instant if something like Bitwarden comes up but for 2FA only.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Why not just use Aegis with a remote backup?