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Re:The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption i... by sethhochberg on Sunday December 23, 2018 @12:15AM (#18744571)
Check out Authenticator Plus - its another TOTP app that lets you backup your (encypted) 2FA secrets and optionally syncs them across devices.

Thankfully Google Authenticator is just TOTP, so you can use whatever client you want.

Re:The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption i... by witten on Sunday December 23, 2018 @01:38AM (#18744798)
Also, check out andOTP on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.shadowice.flocke.andotp/

Open source and supports backups.

Re:The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption i... by StavrosK on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:07AM (#18745341)
andOTP is amazing, I thoroughly recommend it.
Re:The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption i... by otachack on Sunday December 23, 2018 @09:46AM (#18746317)
Had no idea about this. I liked Google's Auth since it was simple but it missed the crucial backup feature. Authy is nice but you're putting trust in a 3rd party that doesn't have a channel for donations, though it seems they're making money through SMS (Twilio).

andOTP is just what I was looking for since it's FOSS and had backup! This would have been a lifesaver when I lost my phone but glad to have run into it now.

Re:The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption i... by peterwwillis on Sunday December 23, 2018 @04:30PM (#18748464)
TOTP is old and busted, U2F is the new hotness.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor

Re:The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption i... by slezyr on Sunday December 23, 2018 @06:19PM (#18749077)
> The device key is secured against duplication by a degree of social trust in the commercial manufacturer

TOTP sounds much better. Also doesn't requires "trusted magic hardware"

Re:The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption i... by peterwwillis on Monday December 24, 2018 @04:20PM (#18754323)
U2F prevents some vulnerabilities that TOTP alone can't. It's possible to replicate it in software instead of a hardware token, but so far nobody has. So if you're adopting 2FA, suggestion is to use U2F if you can.
Re:The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption i... by jammygit on Sunday December 23, 2018 @12:24AM (#18744596)
Thanks for the tip, I only knew about authy before