Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app

• Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, I’m a second child, am I a backup kid?

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• akilou@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Then how do you secure the backup without 2FA?

  Or is it 2FA all the way down?

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  • GustavoFring@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You could store it on an external drive. You can encrypt it with VeraCrypt as well.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aegis encrypts it with a password, then you copy it somewhere. It’s just a set of keys and you can have as many copies as you want (I have three, one phone and two desktops).

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    • akilou@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aegis doesn’t run on your desktop using the same key, it’s just a key stored there, right?

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, I use a different authenticator app (called Authenticator in the Flatpak store), but it does use the same keys. So I import the keys from an Aegis dump so I can generate exactly the same keys on my desktop app that I do on my phone.

        TOTP is a really simple system, as long as I have access to the secret key and a reliable time source, I can generate the exact same tokens as any TOTP app would.

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• penquin@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I backup everything, but Aegis

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• acetanilide@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do I do the backup for Aegis? I looked at it and it’s set up but then at the bottom it says no backups have been made 🤔

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Settings > Import/Export > Export

    This dumps it to a file, then it’s on you to copy it somewhere else.

    Or

    Settings > Backups

    I think this one is automated, but I personally don’t use it, I just back it up manually when I add something new. I keep a completely functional 2FA app on my desktop, so I always have a backup in a pinch.

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    • acetanilide@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks!

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