lokamoka820
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- Mar 1, 2024
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Exactly, this is because Authy shutdown its desktop app which was used to export data, but you can try some workarounds, here are one:
Good cross platform 2FA app
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- May 13, 2017
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Why a cross platform 2FA app, just get a secondary 2AF app. People use backups for everything, but nobody uses a backup for 2FA. Really? You trust apps and their cloud storage that much? A local storage can get corrupted, a cloud storage can get hacked or damaged as well, like rewritten, cloud apps are smart to do that. I use MS authenticator and 2fast - two factor authenticator.
- Aug 12, 2015
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I find that crazy because without 2FA code, you're essentially locked out of your accounts forever. I just can't risk losing my primary e-mail address I use for important communication. It would be like losing a part of my own identity.
Whenever I buy a new phone, my previous one still has a purpose, and just that—backup. My favorite 2FA app is Aegis Authenticator and I have it on both of the devices, new and old one. In case I lose my phone, I can still access my online accounts because 2FA codes are still there on my other device which is always at home.
- Apr 16, 2017
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thanks I saw before you posted it BUT why would I trust "a gist by Brian Hartvigsen" with my 2fa codes? who is that and why would / should trust him...
- Apr 16, 2017
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ok a reasonable idea, but then you are setting them both up at the same time, ie, adding new codes to both at the same time or contemporaneously -- [snip]
lokamoka820
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- Mar 1, 2024
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You don't need to trust him with anything as he didn't offer app or software to transfer the 2fa codes, he just shows how to enable developer mode in your browser so you can extract the data you need, you can disable the internet to be sure that it doesn't do anything behind you, but this code doesn't work anymore as commenters says.thanks I saw before you posted it BUT why would I trust "a gist by Brian Hartvigsen" with my 2fa codes? who is that and why would / should trust him...
- Feb 24, 2016
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Yes , you need to remove your 2fa of each service and move it to Ente / 2fas and stuff these tools / services allow exporting freely unlike authy.
Ente , it supports all major OS and even web. Ente Auth - Open source 2FA authenticator, with E2EE backups
- Mar 2, 2023
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Which is what I will be doing today, removing Authy from my saved websites and re-enabling 2fa using Ente Auth. I like the idea of the desktop app as my backup and for at times the ease of use w/o my phone being handy, which I missed when Authy discontinued their desktop app.
Thanks for all of the members posts and suggestions in this thread, it was very helpful
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- Mar 2, 2023
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@simmerskool I found 2FAS to work better. I got to my second website to enable 2fa with Ente Auth and it didn't work, the website didn't recognize it. 2FAS worked on every site, no problems, and it's pretty intuitive to use along the line of Authy. I allowed it to use my Goggle Drive for the backups, as well as manually creating a password protected back up to a usb drive.
I added the extension to Chrome, but all it does is to sync with the phone app to wake it, enter my PIN number then it asks to allow the site (which you already have set up), you tap it and it automatically fills in the token numbers. It's not a Chrome extension auto fill by itself, but it saves the step of typing in the numbers.
Just a FYI link
I added the extension to Chrome, but all it does is to sync with the phone app to wake it, enter my PIN number then it asks to allow the site (which you already have set up), you tap it and it automatically fills in the token numbers. It's not a Chrome extension auto fill by itself, but it saves the step of typing in the numbers.
Just a FYI link
lokamoka820
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- Mar 1, 2024
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This one doesn't have a windows' client, right?@simmerskool I found 2FAS to work better. I got to my second website to enable 2fa with Ente Auth and it didn't work, the website didn't recognize it. 2FAS worked on every site, no problems, and it's pretty intuitive to use along the line of Authy. I allowed it to use my Goggle Drive for the backups, as well as manually creating a password protected back up to a usb drive.
I added the extension to Chrome, but all it does is to sync with the phone app to wake it, enter my PIN number then it asks to allow the site (which you already have set up), you tap it and it automatically fills in the token numbers. It's not a Chrome extension auto fill by itself, but it saves the step of typing in the numbers.
Just a FYI link
- Mar 2, 2023
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No, it doesn't, but as long as I could back it up was my main concern, especially when Ente Auth had a "glitch" right out of the gate with the 2nd website. I need to be sure, as there are some important sites I'm enabling 2fa for. But yes, a desktop app would have been nice, icing on the cake with 2FAS
- Apr 4, 2021
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Sometimes Ente takes a long time to scan the QR, you need to turn the smartphone or you can enter the code manually. Today I have already transferred most of my accounts to Ente: tutanota, Instagram, Facebook, bitwarden, Gmail, MalwareTips, LinkedIn, samsung.No, it doesn't, but as long as I could back it up was my main concern, especially when Ente Auth had a "glitch" right out of the gate with the 2nd website. I need to be sure, as there are some important sites I'm enabling 2fa for. But yes, a desktop app would have been nice, icing on the cake with 2FAS
- Mar 2, 2023
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Thanks
I may have given up to soon, but I tried the one site 3 times and didn't want to go any further with the other more important sites for me. I started out with a couple of lesser sites just to make sure of how things would work.IIRC, Ente's desktop app laid down a lot of files/reg keys during the install. It surprised me.
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