Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app

• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Microsoft products would like a chat…

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use my Microsoft account with a standard OTP app, you don’t need their own app.

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    • rolling_resistance@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait until your workplace requires you to only use MS Authenticator push notifications 😭 and HOTP occasionally…

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is that a thing? Usually those have a fallback to a regular TOTP code.

        I use Okta for work because we integrate SSO with it everywhere, but I could technically enter a code every time and swap out the Okta app for the other TOTP app I use.

        My company is a MS shop, but they use TOTP as the second factor, and even that is optional. My department uses Okta, which is a completely separate system (we’re a weird, separate unit entirely from most of the rest of the company).

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    • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I did too until it kept rejecting my tokens frequently - changing to M$ Authenticator “solved” it.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They must now require HOTP or something now. TOTP doesn’t care what machine it’s on.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re probably using HOTP or something else, not TOTP. TOTP is literally just the key + any clock. Or maybe it’s the “click button to authenticate” and not the “enter code to authenticate,” which might not be HOTP or TOTP, but something else entirely (e.g. Steam’s system is neither AFAIK).

    If it’s TOTP, you just need to get the key and can use any authenticator app.

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  • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They did. DUO was born.

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• pitninja@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From a security perspective, it’s not a great idea to put 2 factor tokens together with your passwords. You effectively eliminate the security benefit that 2 factor provides if you do because if people get into your password manager, they have everything they need to access your accounts. The only people it helps having it all in one app are people who don’t understand the purpose of 2 factor and just see it as an inconvenience when services force it on them. I’m not sure that I’ll be changing from Aegis to BitWarden’s stand-alone authenticator, though, because Aegis is doing its job nicely.

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