I hope you all freed your 2fa secrets from this un-service.
I did when the news first broke.
However, those who synced their desktop apps with the mobile versions have discovered that some of their tokens did not correctly synchronize, making their associate accounts inaccessible.
Lol
Whoa
What are some good multi-platform alternatives/ replacements?
Duo, Aegis, Bitwarden, Proton.
I like using bitwarden, the selfhosted vaultwarden server stores it with passwords and makes codes available in the app / browser extension. I also keep them backed up on a nas and synced off-site just in case.
I switched to Aegis
I switched to Aegis when google authenticator didn’t allow exports. It’s simple and it works.
Wait, google auth doesnt allow exports? For me it dies…? Am I missing something…?
It does now–it didn’t in the past.
It allows exports but only is a stupid QR-code based format.
Bitwarden or Proton Pass.
A lot of password managers support 2fa now. I use Enpass because I got a lifetime license a long time ago (it’s also available to people with Google Play pass), but I know some other popular options have it too.
The whole point of 2FA is to keep the second factor separate from the first. If you store both in the same password manager app that defeats the entire point of 2FA.
It still protects you from your passwords being compromised in any way except through a compromise of the password manager itself. Yes, it’s worse than keeping them separate, but it’s also still much better than not having 2fa at all.
Keepass. Standalone FOSS apps for desktop/phone. Has OTP support.
Password/tokens are stored in a small encrypted db file you can copy/paste anywhere you need it. Has hundreds of plugins to do various things.
Use something like syncthing/nextcloud/onedrive to keep the file in sync across devices.
I switched to Ente Auth some time ago when bad news about authy started getting out
Along with others already mentioned, 1Password can support 2fa.
1Password has impressed me. I’ve used KeePassXC, LastPass, Bitwarden (but not extensively and one of the early versions), and even CyberArk (🤮).
1Password is closed source but it’s one of those pieces of software that just works the way you expect it to. Hard to confirm a lot of their security claims. Just rolling with “Have not heard a lot about 1Password breaches” mentality.
We got lucky at work and used it to replace an unmanageable long list of KeePass database files that were sprawling everywhere. With that everyone who uses 1Password at work gets an associate private family account. Made managing my kids passwords and share some of our common family passwords way easier and I still get to lock them out of my passwords I don’t want them using.
I believe modern Bitwarden for enterprise has a similar licensing sweetener with a private family account for each corporate account.
I use KeePassXC and a Yubikey 5. You can store a certain number of 2fa on the key but i also back up the secret key and recovery codes on KeePassXC which is backed up on my Nextcloud. When using the Yubikey there is an app on desktop and mobile that reads they key but doesn’t store the codes. Open the app, plug in the key, the TOTP appears, take the key out and the TOTP is gone.
I used Authy a couple years ago, do I need to be worried?
Well that’s already my Monday morning gone. I use Authy desktop for all of my work 2FA tokens.
KeePass has native TOTP support now
Just spent a week manually moving everything off Authy. Total pain, but there are lots of better solutions out there now.
Welp, time to finally migrate one at a time to Proton.
That would be repeating the same mistake. You don’t change one company for the other, you choose an app that is not dependent on an account, like KeepassXC.