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 agoThen how do you secure the backup without 2FA?
Or is it 2FA all the way down?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
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?
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.
GustavoFring@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You could store it on an external drive. You can encrypt it with VeraCrypt as well.